From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Junior IMC Members Arrested in Florida!
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (CNN) --Two third-graders at a Florida elementary school are facing felony charges Wednesday after police said they were found to have 15 plastic bags of marijuana.
The pair claimed to be junior members of a radical anarchist, America-hating gruop know as IMC.
Port St. Lucie police said a cafeteria worker at the Rivers Edge Elementary School told them a 9-year-old boy had shown her a plastic bag of what appeared to be pot.
The boy had 12 small bags of marijuana, according to a police report.
The student admitted he attempted to sell some of the bags to another third-grader, according to police. A second pupil was found in possession of three bags, police said. He told police he got them from the first boy on the bus on the way to school.
The boy with three bags was charged with possession of marijuana, a felony because it happened on school grounds. The second boy was charged with felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
The boy with 12 bags initially told police he found them on the ground in Fort Pierce, a city north of Port St. Lucie where he lives. He then said another child gave it to him to sell.
Police said they are looking for a Fort Pierce teenager in connection with the incident.
Port St. Lucie is an Atlantic Coast city about 120 miles north of Miami.
Police estimate the drugs -- about 16 grams of marijuana -- were worth about $75.
The boys were booked into the St. Lucie Regional Detention Center and then released to their parents or legal guardians Monday night. A police spokesman said these are the youngest children they have arrested on charges of marijuana possession.
A school district spokeswoman said the Rivers Edge Elementary School sent a letter to parents explaining the situation. She called it an isolated incident, the first of its kind involving elementary-age students in her district.
The students were suspended for 10 days and have been recommended for expulsion under the school district's zero-tolerance policy for drugs.
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network
Whats the connection to Indymedia?
Canadian man killed at IMC
By Dawn Bowen
Current-Argus Staff Writer
CARLSBAD - A Canadian man was reportedly crushed to death Monday at IMC Potash.
http://www.currentargus.com/Stories/0,1413,161%257E9263%257E1043409,00.html
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/biznews/1207story2_business.shtml
http://www.mid-day.com/news/business/2002/december/38126.htm
http://www.imcchicago.com/our-company-vision.htm
http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/inside/2001/imcgrad.html
Gee ... Why is that, I wonder? Could it be because the story is complete bullshit?
Secondly - they were selling the marijuana, I understand? They sound more like juvenile capitalists to me.
Helps clients conceive and develop innovative yet commercial solutions that will enhance profitability, cash generation and business performance.
Creates within a client organisation the impetus essential to achieving the required outcomes.
Ensures that the client staff with whom we work in close co-operation are able to sustain the continuity of improvements after we have left.
http://www.imcconsultinggroup.co.uk/
The amount of money involved in the Islamic Mafia's racket is enormous. But as usual the Mafia has the clout of the highest leaders in the Congress behind it. Over 40 IDA schemes involving 200 acres of prime land have been shelved and the land released for private construction during the current regime. The Islamic Mafia is earning over Rs 500 crore every year from real estate crimes in Indore alone thanks in no small measure to the Congress Party.
"
http://www.swordoftruth.com/swordoftruth/archives/byauthor/aditichaturvedi/timtnp4.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/12/11/school.pot/index.html
The guy who posted this article was so desperate he had to EDIT it and add the slander about IMC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a NUTCASE
OBJECTIVES
1. To undertake advocacy work in the United States to help the political struggle by the Indians to safeguard India's plural and democratic nature, protect the fundamental rights the constitution of India grants them and combat fascism, religious intolerance, racism and sexism in the Indian society.
2. To protect the United States society through peaceful, democratic and legal means only, from infiltration and/or abuse by the Hindutva-fascist forces.
3. To combat the fascist ideology at an intellectual level
4. To protect the civil rights of all people of Indian origin living in the United States
5. To work closely with Human Rights, Civil Rights and minority rights organizations
http://www.imc.org/imc-spam/index.html
Background
In the mid 1950’s following a major conference in Paris, the "Big Four" consulting companies at the time, agreed to form a British grouping to be called the Management Consultancies Association.
A year later, the industry also demanded a professional institute as opposed to the trade association, which the MCA was becoming.
The IMC was formed in 1962 sharing offices with MCA, who also helped fund it along with a few individuals. Most of the established consultancies encouraged their staff to join and contributed to their subscriptions.
http://www.imc.co.uk/content/about_us/summary/Default.htm
"cul'tural plu'ralism
Sociol.
1. a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.
2. a doctrine that a society benefits from such a condition.
Maybe I misunderstood and you actually believe in racial supremacist states and ethnic totalitarianism.
Plus, I don't see where you got your completely fabricated and totally made-up "80 million" figure from. Forgive me for being skeptical when people make such absurd claims ...
I knew that. You'd never say anything like that.
I'm pretty sure it's that "Hey" guy. I think he posted as me as well. He's going all crazy trying to disrupt things (course he's a midget compared to some who have tried)
...
The claim that Sindh during the 7th century was reeling from the hegemony of Brahminical authority is often accepted as truth simply because it has been made so frequently, and by such a variety of colonial and post-colonial historians and social scientists that few scholars have demanded any concrete evidence that might substantiate such a claim. But as the essay on the History of Social Relations in India illustrates, several 5th-7th C Gupta-period land decrees demonstrate that caste was a relatively flexible category, and that Brahmins did not enjoy social hegemony until the widespread proliferation of the agrahara villages, a practice that started towards the end of the Gupta-period in Bihar, spread very slowly in the rest of India, and took more than a few centuries to crystallize. In the neighboring regions of Punjab, Kutch, Gujarat and Rajasthan, there is little evidence that such agrahara villages ever took shape, and the history of these regions appears to be shaped as much (or more) by Rajputs, Jats, Buddhists and Jains as by Brahmins. Virtually all of Sindh's historians acknowledge that Rajputs and Jats also formed a substantial proportion of the Sindhi population at the time of the Bin Qasim invasion. The presence of Buddhists is also acknowledged, and has been verified by the discovery of Buddhist Stupas and other Buddhist artifacts in the state
...
While caste divisions may have prevented Hindu society from offering united resistance to the Islamic invaders, it does not appear as though the advent of Islam actually liberated the most oppressed Jatis. According to Al-Beruni (b. Khiva, 973AD), those most discriminated in Hindu society were those associated with carrying out "unclean tasks", but it should be noted that in Sindh (and elsewhere in India), there are precisely such oppressed communities that were never converted to Islam, and continued to face discrimination at the hands of both Hindus and Muslims.
(It might also be noted that the 11-12th C Sumra rulers of Sindh were Rajput converts to Islam, as were the 13-14th C Samma rulers. After colonization, castes associated with trade and commerce such as Hindu Banias and Lohanas or their Muslim counterparts such as Memons exercised a powerful hold over cash-poor and indebted artisans and peasants. By and large, conversion to Islam did not end pre-existing caste-loyalties or eliminate differences in social rank. Also see Zarina Bhatty: "Social stratification among Muslims in India" from the book "Caste - its twentieth century avatar" by M N Srinivas, Viking, New Delhi, 1996, pp 249 - 253.)
...
[A]after Islamization, the progress of science in Sindh slowed, and the attention of Arab, Persian and Central Asian scholars turned to Punjab, Gujarat and other centres of learning in India. Hence, the claim that the introduction of Islam under the aegis of Arab invaders such as Bin Qasim was an event that heralded a radical and progressive new era of cultural growth and material prosperity for the people of Sindh, is a largely unproven claim, and in fact, almost untenable when the mass of contrary evidence (both concrete, and circumstantial) is taken into account. That it liberated the people of Sindh from unspeakable horrors is another speculation, driven more by political needs and Islamic chauvinism than by any clear and irrefutable historical evidence.
...
Today, Sindh, which was home to one of the world's earliest settled civilizations - i.e. the civilization of Harappa and Mohenjodaro is in a state of cultural and economic crisis - heavily dependant financially on repatriations from the Gulf oil kingdoms, struggling under the weight of a colonial past, and dictatorial present. Internecine religious wars bleed the state constantly, even as it suffers internal discrimination at the hands of the Punjabi military elite. Reclaiming it's true history could be the first step it takes towards liberating itself not only from the shackles of it's colonial past, but also from the false glorification of invasions and conquests that drained it of it's wealth and brought it few tangible returns in exchange.
A more objective and dispassionate examination of the historical record may reveal that rather than Sindh being "liberated" and "civilized" by the Arab invaders, it was in fact, the other way around. Sindh helped educate and civilize the new Arab kingdoms, who in turn helped carry the knowledge of India to Europe. Instead of seeing it's pre-Islamic history with contempt or disdain, Sindh (and the rest of present day Pakistan) might do better by acknowledging the positive aspects of the intellectual and cultural traditions that had developed prior to Islamic rule and played such an important role in shaping the civilizations of the Arab and Western worlds.
http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/sindh.html