79. It’s for the children: the Colorado legislature considers a bill that would criminalize negligent storage of firearms.
80. Aside from the top-secret Camp 7 within the Gitmo terrorist camp, it’s now possible that detainees convicted of terrorism could face the death penalty and be executed on Gitmo, which would be “largely beyond the reach of U. S. courts”.
81. Voter confusion over a poorly-designed ballot in Los Angeles County may have led to as many as 776,000 “Nonpartisan” ballots to be ignored in the vote count.
82. Do you have any undeclared vegetables, plants or hard drives? Customs agents are seizing computers and other electronic devices, without a warrant or even probable cause, from international travelers and copying any data found on them.
83. The smell of drug money: an Oregon man is busted for running an indoor marijuana farm after a bureaucrat notices that the money he used to pay a tax bill smelled like pot.
84. Narcs for the New World Order, unite! United Nations anti-drug bureaucrats claim that new marijuana vending machines in California violate international drug treaties and should be shut down. And the DEA threatens San Francisco landlords with property seizure if they continue to rent to medical marijuana dispensaries, even though they are legal in California.
85. The Feds seize cash, computers and financial records of a Denver business which they say operated a high-end prostitution ring, but have not arrested or charged the owner or employees with a crime.
86. It’s for the children, pt. 2: Boston cops go door-to-door in poor neighborhoods, “asking” if they can search the house for illegal guns.
87. In the wake of a Lima, Ohio SWAT raid in which a young woman was shot to death and her one-year-old son wounded, protesters at the Lima City Council meeting are greeted by SWAT snipers on the rooftops.
88. A Barstow, Calif. man is also greeted by SWAT, in the form of a flash-bang grenade thrown into his home, causing second- and third-degree burns. They then drag the disabled man out on his porch, where he is kicked and beaten. “They weren’t acting like professional policemen,” observed a neighbor. “They were acting like thugs.”