Ex-superintendent among 16 guilty of trespassing (AZ/GA)

[struggle4progress]

By Lawn Griffiths, Tribune
February 3, 2007

Philip Gates, former Scottsdale Unified School District superintendent, was among 16 found guilty this week of trespassing on Nov. 19 at a Georgia military training center, where they say tactics are taught to foreign soldiers to suppress and torture people in mostly Latin American nations ...

Gates, who is a retired Prescott resident and served as superintendent from 1982 to 1986, was sentenced to 60 days in a federal minimum security prison, a term to start sometime in the next four to six weeks ...

The former school chief, who spent 14 years as a Scottsdale school administrator, shared how he had been a Presbyterian peace worker in Colombia for two months in 2005 and heard first-hand stories of human rights abuses by military personnel who had graduated from the Georgia school.

Gates said he was encouraged that in June the U.S. House of Representatives was only 15 votes shy of passing a measure that would require the school to close, while 300 Catholic bishops penned a letter for its closing and the Presbyterian Church’s highest level in the U.S. has twice passed resolutions for a shutdown ...

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[Tom Joad]

1. I like this Gates.