Gov. Jodi Rell must immediately pardon this teacher and expunge the conviction. The teacher in this case is a victim as much if not more than the minors damaged by whatever happened in that classroom. The actual perpetrators were: the pornographers the generated the porn, the web site purveyors who posted it, the programmers who facilitated the web site operation, the school administration for failing to provide a safe workplace and school environment and for failing to properly train teachers before putting them in classrooms with devices as dangerous as a computer running Windows and connected to the Internet, the school board who failed to fund filtering software, and finally but not least, Microsoft for producing and marketing an operating system so weak that children can break it.
Now there are many others to blame for the insanity of this conviction. The prosecutor who is making a name for himself from this case,the judge for failing to dismiss the case, the defense attorney for botching the defense all share responsibility.
It is time for Connecticut Governor Rell to show take control of this train wreck and provide leadership. If that doesn't happen, the teacher's local union, the Connecticut state teacher's union and the national union need to rally in support. Step one is to turn off every computer in every classroom and school library across the state and the nation. If the teachers and librarians are to be held criminally responsible for what comes up on those machines, they have no choice but to turn them off to protect the children and themselves. The second step must be a walk out. Close down the schools if the public, the courts, and the state administration are so ignorant of the underlying technology and foolish in assigning blame as to allow this conviction to stand, then the schools need to be closed until wake up and make the educational computing safe and productive for children.
Steve "Suicide" Ballmer
Doesn't the name just say it all. Death to all who do not agree and death in the course of pursuit of dealing death is the road to heaven. Not good, not good at all.
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Gov. Jodi Rell must immediately pardon this teacher and expunge the conviction. The teacher in this case is a victim as much if not more than the minors damaged by whatever happened in that classroom. The actual perpetrators were: the pornographers the generated the porn, the web site purveyors who posted it, the programmers who facilitated the web site operation, the school administration for failing to provide a safe workplace and school environment and for failing to properly train teachers before putting them in classrooms with devices as dangerous as a computer running Windows and connected to the Internet, the school board who failed to fund filtering software, and finally but not least, Microsoft for producing and marketing an operating system so weak that children can break it. Now there are many others to blame for the insanity of this conviction. The prosecutor who is making a name for himself from this case,the judge for failing to dismiss the case, the defense attorney for botching the defense all share responsibility. It is time for Connecticut Governor Rell to show take control of this train wreck and provide leadership. If that doesn't happen, the teacher's local union, the Connecticut state teacher's union and the national union need to rally in support. Step one is to turn off every computer in every classroom and school library across the state and the nation. If the teachers and librarians are to be held criminally responsible for what comes up on those machines, they have no choice but to turn them off to protect the children and themselves. The second step must be a walk out. Close down the schools if the public, the courts, and the state administration are so ignorant of the underlying technology and foolish in assigning blame as to allow this conviction to stand, then the schools need to be closed until wake up and make the educational computing safe and productive for children.
Steve "Suicide" Ballmer Doesn't the name just say it all. Death to all who do not agree and death in the course of pursuit of dealing death is the road to heaven. Not good, not good at all.