Morbid pictures - Freedom of speech?

This family by FAR should win this legal battle. The CHP officers that took the horrible pictures
deserve to have their jobs removed and to be either fined HEAVILY or thrown in prison for a few years.
It surprises and disgusts me, some of the things said about this girl. Although she had it all, that doesn't mean she deserved a gruesome death. People don't seem to understand that passing judgement will shrink your mental capacity so much that you end up not ever having lived life to the fullest because you didnt let people in over what you believed is true about them. I bet this girl had a great personality, and even if she was snobbish and spoiled she was still a person, and NO ONE deserves to have their post-mortem pictures floating around the internet like some kind of freak show.

The internet should be restricted more than newspapers about this. People assume that just because the internet isn't something you can hold in your hand or burn or put through a shedder that it isn't quite as used as newspapers and magazines. Of course it is. It's used by billions of people every day, and some people should be prosecuted for some of the things they do on it.
Stealing media is one thing but actually making a point to break someone down, to hurt them the way that these sick freaks have tried to hurt that girls family... It's just depressing.

This has nothing to do with free speech. If the CHP officers decided to post those pictures in a newspaper or personally walk up to the father of the girl that was killed and hand the photos to him, the situation would be alot different. But because of the circumstances, NO ONE is being prosecuted and this poor family is being emotionally beaten and tortured because of morbid and sick people.

Those photos should never have been released in the first place, and if they were top secret Government photos, the CHP officers would probably already have been classified as "terrorists" and been put to death. But this is far more important, this vastly effects the way that everyone in the world views the internet. The internet is place for the worst kinds of things, and even though it's helpful, it seems like this stunt pulled by officers of the LAW will only add to the vile and disgusting content already on the internet.

Is the writer correct?

I had no idea about Earth Day. I think that there's nothing wrong with Celebrating it once a year, It's a good reminder for us to change our bad habits.

My family doesn't really do anything for earth day. I figure the politicians set
enough laws over emissions and spend enough money on somewhat useless government
projects that I probably wouldn't help much compared to them anyway.
We try to save energy, and we do recycle things (glass, cardboard, paper, etc.)

They're good habits to get into, and maybe eventually everyone will understand that
we need to make them permanent habits.

What you really learn in school

I'll admit it, I'm guilty. There are certain classes that I just tolerate, and don't give my all to.
It's hard to want to give above a passing, especially when it's not your best subject. Kids tend to want to show their all in things that they're naturally talented in, so it's not unimaginable that they'd BS their way through a class that they don't excel in. I never really believe that i'd always get a second chance, not only in school, but in life. Things happen that subconsciously make you realize that sometimes when you screw up, you have to take a different route and strive for something else. A test is an assessment of your skills, and if you don't pass, that doesn't always mean you'll be able to hone your skills. Sometimes it just means that you're not qualified, and really it helps you to narrow down what it is you will truly be good at.
Sometimes I really do feel better when someone else is failing, or someone else "didn't finish that stupid project." For some reason it gives me a sense of comfort, something I should probably change my attitude about. Just because someone else sucks at something, it doesn't give you permission to suck too. I understand that passing is a privilige, and I have no belief of passing just because my friends are. I recognize my friends not only for our similarities but for our differences. I have friends that I know will not quite live up to their true potential, but I also have friends that put me to shame for my grades and successes. To me, when you take a class in college, you take it because it attributes to your career interest. Interest being the key word. When you're interested in something, it's easy to learn all that you can about the subject, and taking the test is usually easy because you're in love with what you're learning. In High school, I have been guilty of only caring about what's on the test, but only in classes that I have trouble focusing in. Biology and Alegbra are mostly for left-brained individuals, and I excel in right brained activities. So when it comes to that Algebra test, I guarantee you I will mainly focus about whats on the test. In English I absorb every bit of information like a sponge, and wring it back out when the test is put in front of me.

Responding to the Economy

Honestly my parents filed for a divorce right as the economy problems started happening.
So, for me, my mom and dad's lack of money stems from both their choice in divorcing and
the economic slump. My dad exlpained to me yesterday that this is the slowest hay season in 15 years. He unloads trucks with a forklift that is specifically for hay and is the only other guy in the northstate who does it. He said that he only has a truck every other day, when before I remember he had at least two trucks a day - 7 days a week. My mom works for American Medical Bill Review, and is completely stressed because of a merge that her company did. She is an IT manager, and her responsibilities doubled. So her workload is atrocious and i'm beginning to wonder if she's going to have health problems because of it. She still makes the same, her salary is about $55,000 a year. My sister finally got a job after a year of looking, and even then she only gets 25 hours a week. The Economy is making me depressed, my boyfriend also just lost his job. He was a temp for the school district, and they were thinking about keeping him until they had major budget cuts and had to let people - even much need people - go.

Intellectual Property

I think that trying to use similar laws in the US will only cause internet security to change drastically. People will adapt, change their security, and although a court order would force ISP's to show who was downloading files, people will create ways to protect themselves.
I think that it will only push civilans and their goverments even farther apart. It's understandable that these people don't want their music being downloaded for free, but
I honestly think that these people make enough money as it is. It's ridiculous to spend more of the taxpayers money on something that isn't as bad of a problem as ACTUAL crime.
I don't relate downloading a file and stealing a car to each other. It's not the same thing,
and honestly the kids who do it don't understand what they're doing wrong. Movies are one thing I guess, and software, but even though these musicians have a small percentage of their music stolen, they still make a few hundred times more than the average american.

Besides, isn't it funny that rappers who brag about being "gangsters" and "thugs", who talk about smoking pot and doing drugs, are telling kids not to steal?
Look at the irony in that, eh?

I think that looking for music downloaders is one thing, but just scaring people should be enough to get them to quit. Don't make ridiculous laws that lock people up just because someone wanted to hear their favorite song, or watch a movie. Give them a warning or two, and then let the Justice system take it's toll. Stealing a car is a crime, murdering someone is a crime, but
creating laws that allow our government to monitor us is Communism.
I'm tired of the goverment appeasing stupid laws that don't make sense, and not focusing on the problems we're already having with the laws that exist. Pretty soon, people wont be able to brush their teeth in the morning without a court order.