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SAN ANGELO, Texas  —  A Texas grand jury Tuesday indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers on charges of felony sexual assault of a child. Another was indicted for failing to report child abuse. Attorney General Greg Abbott said the five men are charged with one count of sexually assaulting girls under the age of 17. One of them, but not Jeffs, faces an additional charge of bigamy. Abbott said a sixth member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse. Jeffs, already convicted of being accomplice to rape in Utah and awaiting trial in Arizona on other charges related to underage marriages, is accused of assaulting a girl in Texas in January 2005, according to the indictment issued Tuesday. "Our investigation in this matter is not concluded. This is an ongoing investigation that we intend to continue," said Abbott, whose office is acting as the special prosecutor in the case. The grand jury in this tiny western Texas ranching community will continue consideration of other possible criminal charges on Aug. 21, according to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity because proceedings of the panel are secret by law.   Read On

 
   
   
Extreme make-over needed or consider an ongoing emerging investigation of terrorism in the USA.  You can be sure, investigative reports are serious concerning some of our men who are intentionally targeted for pornographic mental illness against family values.  Have you noticed in the last several years that rich Saudis are buying land in our cities and constructing topless bar businesses? As the leader in the topless bar industry, Houston has numerous topless bars owned by extremeous muslims wanting to destroy our families.  If the fabric of America continues to unravel, our weaknesses will surely be the focus. For example, in Houston we have the Treasurers Topless Bar located in the only zoned area of St. George Place in our famous Galleria, a hardy business center for the rich and famous-- which is owned by extremeous Saudis.   The Treasures remains open as it is one of the 250 topless bars slated for shutdown out of 350, even after the recent US Supreme Court ruling.   Nevertheless, our city is bombarded with more expensive lawsuits after spending over 1.8 million supporting our Houston City Ordinance passed in l997 for eleven (11) years in litigation.  Talk about vexatious litigant abuse -- the topless bar litigation cases make other forms of abuse look pale in comparison because the Saudis have deep pockets.   Since all of the current lawsuit's subjects from the topless bars have already been ajudicated during the eleven (11) years of litigation, why aren't the vexatious litigant statutes used against the Saudis?
 
 

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction." The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity. The 90 million people watching the Super Bowl, many of them children, heard Justin Timberlake sing, "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song," as he reached for Jackson's bustier. The court found that the FCC deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining indecent broadcast programming only when it was so "pervasive as to amount to 'shock treatment' for the audience.""Like any agency, the FCC may change its policies without judicial second-guessing," the court said. "But it cannot change a well-established course of action without supplying notice of and a reasoned explanation for its policy departure." The 3rd Circuit judges — Chief Judge Anthony J. Scirica, Judge Marjorie O. Rendell and Judge Julio M. Fuentes — also ruled that the FCC deviated from its long-held approach of applying identical standards to words and images when reviewing complaints of indecency. "The Commission's determination that CBS's broadcast of a nine-sixteenths of one second glimpse of a bare female breast was actionably indecent evidenced the agency's departure from its prior policy," the court found. "Its orders constituted the announcement of a policy change — that fleeting images would no longer be excluded from the scope of actionable indecency." Policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent."   By neutering the FCC of its authority, the court is giving networks carte blanche to out-sleaze the competition. If the courts won't uphold American standards, we must.



 

Christian Bale leaves a central London police station after being arrested and questioned by police. "Dark Knight" star Christian Bale has denied allegations by his mother and sister that he assaulted them, and he is cooperating with police, Bale's publicists said Tuesday. Bale has not been charged with any crime, his publicists said. "Christian Bale attended a London police station today, on a voluntary basis, in order to assist with an allegation that had been made against him to the police by his mother and sister," the statement said. British media reported that police questioned Bale over an allegation that he assaulted his mother and sister at a London hotel a day before the European premiere of "The Dark Knight." Asked about the reports, a spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police said a 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault but would not divulge his name. The statement from Bale's publicists did not say whether an arrest had been made. "Mr. Bale, who denies the allegation, cooperated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question and has left the station without any charge being made against him by the police," it said. Bale would have no further comment, the statement said. A records check turned up no criminal record for Bale in Los Angeles, according to The Associated Press. A woman believed to be Bale's sister Sharon said "it's a family matter" from her home in Corfe Mullen, 110 miles southwest of London, according to the AP. A man who answered the door at the home of his mother, Jenny Bale, in nearby Bournemouth said she did not want to comment, the AP reported. Bale is in London after the British premiere of "The Dark Knight," the latest Batman movie and a Warner Brothers film. Warner Brothers is owned by Time Warner, also the parent company of CNN.  Bale plays Bruce Wayne/Batman in "The Dark Knight," which co-stars the late Heath Ledger as the Joker.

 
 
 
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