In the News: Save the Firehouse

May 22, 2011 Community News

••• A Facebook page and Twitter account have been started for supporters of the Ladder No. 8 (a .k.a. Ghostbusters) firehouse. (DNAinfo)

••• “Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was settling into his new digs at 71 Broadway [near Rector] Saturday after being rejected by an Upper East Side high-rise. The accused sex fiend, who was freed on $6 million bail and is under house arrest, will have to stay 24 hours a day in his freshly-rented apartment at the 21-story tower known as the Empire Building. […] Strauss-Kahn’s new neighbors were less than overjoyed to share the same address with him. ‘The man is evil,’ Joanie Adler, 33, groused to The Post. ‘I don’t like the idea of him staying here.’ ‘He belongs in jail, not in my building,’ lawyer Alex Holland, told the paper.” So much for innocent until proven guilty. (DNAinfo)

••• “An unidentified man suffered minor injuries Sunday morning after he tried to ride the outside of the southbound A Train at Chambers Street.” (DNAinfo)

 
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1 Comment

  1. Fritz LeChat
    May 22, 2011 • 12:42 pm

    The phrase “innocent until proven guility” is widely misused. It is a very limited legal term, and its real meaning has to do with the concept of due process under the law. It does *not* mean that someone must be treated in all ways as innocent..hence the concept of putting someone in jail when accused and arraigned. Also, it has no meaning as a qualifier on speech. We are fully entitled (first amendment) to express our opinions about someone’s guilt or innocence in any forum. Even if I just feel from reading a tabloid that someone is guilty, I am 100 percent within my rights to say so. I might be ignorant but I am not violating someone’s entitlement to due process. The idea that someone who expresses an opinion that they don’t want M. Strauss-Kahn in their building isn’t really violating any principle. By using this phrase this loosely you cheapen it to the point of removing its meaning.