Are Lake Havasu Police Dishonestly Shaking Down California Tourists?

Not sure how accurate this is, so make of it what you will, but it is nonetheless an interesting discussion that shows the lengths some communities will go to in an attempt to keep their finances in the black.

That's one of the things I object to here in Washington state. The state troopers aren't there to enforce the law, they are there as basically a shakedown racket done at the behest of Governor Christine Gregoire. The speed limit on the freeways is only 60mph and the limit on big city streets is 40mph. In California and just about everywhere else, those limits are five mph higher. Washington does this to harvest more tickets and, as a result, there are many owner operator truckers who won't haul loads to the state.

Of course, this does zero for the comity between cop and civilian, too. Just what the police and the quest for public safety need, no?

Innocent 16 Year Old Taken Away by FBI Under Patriot Act; Case Has Ominous Implications for National Security and Personal Freedom

The FBI, along with North Carolina state troopers, busted down the door of a house late at night recently and arrested a 16 year old boy on terrorism charges under the Patriot Act. However, not only is he almost certainly innocent, but our top federal law enforcement agency is apparently incapable of spotting IP spoofing.

At this time, they are holding the boy somewhere in Indiana and has not been allowed to see anyone and a gag order has been imposed on all the officers involved in the teen's seizure.

I urge everyone to write your Congresspeople about this case as well as President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Se TV news report here.

So if the FBI is helpless against IP spoofing then how do we expect them to investigate more complex computer related cases competently? We can't. This case is great news for domestic and foreign enemies. Really, it is both scary and pathetic.

And it puts every citizen of this country who is on the internet at risk of a false arrest and detention with no due process rights.