Forgive Forget Love

A popular Canadian rapper says he can’t understand why a prominent lawyers’ group is condemning his angry response to a controversial sexual-assault sentencing.

Classified — whose real name is Luke Boyd — took to Facebook earlier this month asking supporters to tell a judge they were unhappy with a five-year sentence handed to a man who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old Newfoundland girl.

On Tuesday, the Newfoundland and Labrador branch of the Canadian Bar Association said the rapper’s “personal attack” on the judge “is inappropriate and threatens judicial independence,” although it didn’t identify Classified by name.

“Canadians enjoy an open and transparent judicial system. All Canadians have a right to know what is happening in the courts, how justice is administered, and to be critical of court decisions. However, personal attacks on judges threaten their independence and ability to deliver justice effectively,” it said in a statement.

In a response posted on Facebook Thursday, Classified said asking people to email a judge “doesn’t seem like much of an attack compared to what that little girl went through.”

And he asked why the bar association criticized him, rather than questioning how the legal system treats rape victims.

“I received over 500 emails from people. People I don’t know. That told me what they have went through, whether it was rape, being molested as a child and put through some horrible things and how all of their accusers got off with next to nothing,” Classified, who lives in Enfield, N.S., said in his Facebook post.

“Everytime I read one of their stories it hits me again and blows my mind that the people in proper power and that understand the system a lot better than myself (and have put me down for addressing it the wrong way) do nothing to change these laws so that the judge can sentence these messed up people a lot longer.”

Police officers have arrested a man for filming an arrest even though they acknowledged it was legal for him to do so– and he’s a State Congressman

The police officers seemed more concerned with calling Rep. John Walker a “race baiter” for doing something completely legal than they were in upholding the law. But the kicker is that Rep. Walker had already been arrested for the same thing years ago, which is why he fought for the law (and won) in the first place.

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“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly

The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

These birds are not just taking food and leaving shinies. These birds are watching over this family now. Their lives have become involved. These crows are keeping track of this girl and her mother even when they are out of the yard. How do we know?

One of them is a photographer, and one day while she was photographing some stuff on a bridge, she dropped her camera’s lenscap over the edge. There was no way she could get it back, so she left it. When she got home, the lenscap was sitting on the edge of one of the feeding stations, waiting for her.