Arizona High School Teacher Sentenced To 200 Years For Child Porn

     This is why you do not get caught in Arizona doing some sorts of criminal activities.

BBC

By James Westhead
BBC News, Washington

    The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a high school teacher from Arizona sentenced to 200 years in jail for possessing child pornography.

The state has the nation's toughest laws on child abuse and exploitation.

Indeed, the prosecutor had asked for a 340-year sentence but the trial judge imposed the minimum of 10 years for each of 20 images - to be served consecutively for a total of 200 years without the possibility of probation, early release or pardon.

   It is to bad that someone with child images can get 200 years in prison but a pedophile can go out and actually hurt the children and still walk the streets in short time if they get any time at all.

    Now if Arizona would just line all of the sentences up like this one for the rapist's and the murderer's, the streets would clear up in no time!

 

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General Pace Says U.S. Military To Strained For Another Conflict

   While we are on the subject of the war in Iraq.

   In a report to Congress, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are putting alot of strain on American military and that if another crisis arose the United States  would not be able to respond as quick as the U.S. would like to.

AP 

The latest review by Pace covers the military's status during 2006, but the readiness level has seesawed back and forth during the Iraq war. Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the risk levels are classified, said the risk for 2005 was moderate, but it was assessed as significant in 2004.

His assessment was submitted to Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the beginning of this year, and therefore does not reflect the latest move to pour 21,500 more troops into Iraq over the next few months.

Gates delivered Pace's assessment to Congress, along with a six-page report on steps the Pentagon is taking to address the problem — including new efforts to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps, and requests for more money to repair and replace equipment. On Monday, the Pentagon released most of Gates' report, except for a few sections that were classified as secret.

 

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