To me, the funny part - is that the ALCU - STILL doesn't `get it' that we don't have a two party system -- and that BOTH parties are BEYOND worthless to the average folk. This quote from the link:"It’s 18 months and, if not now, when? ... Guantanamo is still not closed. Military commissions are still a mess. The administration still uses state secrets to shield themselves from litigation. There's no prosecution for criminal acts of the Bush administration. Surveillance powers put in place under the Patriot Act have been renewed. If there has been change in the civil liberties context, I frankly don't see it." - http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0610/ACLU_chief_disgusted_with_Obama.html?showall
Here's Jon Stewart making the same point: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah
DARE program failed because it's ineffective - From the link:
I do not question the sincerity or intent of people involved in the DARE program. ("School resource officers felled by state budget ax," June 14.) Nor do I question their desire to prevent drug and alcohol abuse among youth. Nonetheless, there is a significant problem with DARE.
Evidence and research indicate, in the words of one study, that DARE "has a limited to nonexistent effect" on drug use. The General Accounting Office, U.S. surgeon general, National Institute of Justice, Department of Education and American Psychological Association conclude that DARE is ineffective.
A 2009 study of a new DARE curriculum, "Take charge of Your Life," involving 20,000 seventh-graders, concluded: "Far from being a success, the program is actually counterproductive." That from University of Akron researchers who designed the program.
Even on DARE's website, so-called research in support of DARE's effectiveness is primarily testimonials from DARE personnel and police and anecdotal evidence, not objective research. One "study" stated DARE is a success because it improved the image of police. That's what DARE is for? DARE money improves the police image?
A more accurate headline for the article, had The Day researched DARE's "success," would have been "School resource officers and DARE programs felled by facts." -- A success because it `improves the police image?' -- you have got to be F-ing kidding me! http://www.theday.com/article/20100617/OP02/306179447
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