| Coming Soon: SR to Release E-mail Exchanges ... (Not so fast...)
Update: After reviewing the messages and our options (none good), we've decided not to post the messages. Here's the situation: Of the 50 messages, a few have explicit photos embedded in the message. We can't publish those photos (one shows a toddler's penis). We also have a strong ethical policy against blurring or otherwise manipulating photos. Some of the messages are completely innocuous. The rest of the messages only refer to attachments. Those attachments are explicit, so we can't publish them. We've also gone through each message to blur e-mail addresses for privacy reasons. So, if we don't publish any of the explicit images, and we refuse to blur, crop or otherwise alter them, all we're left with is a bunch of forwarded messages that say things like "take a look at this!" We decided that did not advance the story in any significant way.
Is the Union still relevant?
I think I must disagree with you Ally, although hats off for at least making a coherent argument in favour of the Union. To answer your objections, in my view, we only got the vote in 1918, 211 years after the formation of the Union. Within 10 years the National Party of Scotland was formed followed by the Scottish Party. In 1935 these merged to become the SNP, and ten years after that they won their first Parliamentary seat, Winnie Ewing had her first success in Hamilton in 1967. Issues that the early independence movement had to contend with were the formation of the Labour Party and the massive political upheaval of two world wars and the propaganda which accompanied them. The strength of feeling for independence can be gauged from the fact that the movement has grown in popularity through it all.
Homeless asked to leave
A group of homeless squatting in an overgrown field along East Second Street were asked to leave the private property after an article on the tent encampment appeared in the Odessa American. The property owner’s son, Manuel Gonzalez, knew drifters cut through the property, but he was unaware that some had set up tents and created a living community hidden from plain sight behind a tin fence on the property. Gonzalez was warned, he said, that he faces city code violations and fines if the men and women remained on the overgrown land, including fire code violations because the homeless living there started fires for warmth. Gonzalez met the homeless with police officers and told them that he understands their situation, and he feels from them, but he can’t afford any-thing happening to them there, Gonzalez said Thursday.
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