At the Texas Independent, Patrick Brendel writes that state Rep. Dan Huberty of Houston has introduced HR 698:
Local school board members and superintendents should be allowed to carry their weapons during board or committee meetings, even on district-owned property, as long as they have concealed handgun licenses, said Texas Rep. Dan Huberty (R-Houston).
He said withholding that right from school district leaders is unfair because many public officials — including state lawmakers — are allowed to carry weapons while conducting official business. Huberty, who served on a school board for more than five years, said he’s looking out for former colleagues.
“It just gives them the ability to protect themselves and the right to do so,” he said. “Lots of times board members are in meetings where there is no security or officers around, when they’re discussing budgets and cuts in backrooms by themselves, working on things like committees that are all open to the public.” |
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2006:
Long reluctant to urge the personal risks of whistleblowing on fellow Americans, Daniel Ellsberg in September 2004 broke a self-imposed silence and issued, with 10 others (including Sibel Edmonds and Ray McGovern), a Call to Patriotic Whistleblowing, both a plea and something of a "how to" guide for those in government contemplating leaking pertinent information to Congress and the public. Out of this letter came the Truth-Telling Project, an organization founded to help encourage whistleblowers on a long-term basis. Ellsberg is also a member of Sibel Edmonds' National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, which was founded to support whistleblowers directly involved in national security issues.
Among other issues discussed below, Ellsberg points to Katharine Gun's leak of the plan to eavesdrop on UN delegates in the run-up to the Iraq war as the ideal of effective whistleblowing: current information disclosed about an issue in which lives are at stake and/or freedoms are threatened. |
Tonight's Quote:
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
George Walker Bush
January 28, 2003, State of the Union