Concerns About Drug Searches, Police Dogs, Bad Cops, Star Trek Fans

Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio after attending a "Star Trek" convention in St. Louis. As they passed through a small town in Illinois, a police officer, Michael Reichert, pulled Huff's red PT Cruiser over to the side of the road, allegedly for an unsafe lane change. Over the next hour, Reichert interrogated the two men, employing a variety of police tactics civil rights attorneys say were aimed at tricking them into giving up their Fourth Amendment rights.

"Brock and the Glock": armed bodyguards and gun control

The recent revelation that the head of Media Matters walked the streets of Washington with a Glock-toting bodyguard may make it a little awkward for the group the next time it seeks a donation from a gun control advocacy group.

Media Matters reportedly took more than $400,000 from the Joyce Foundation specifically earmarked to promote a $600,000 initiative on "gun and public safety issues." At the same time, Media Matters' gun-guarded boss David Brock reportedly obsessed over his own security.

Federal Judge rules OK to treat some gun stores differently

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association's lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its requirement to purchasers of two or more semi-automatic rifles greater than .22 caliber within five days in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas.

Police vs. Watchdogs with cameras

This CNN video article talks about some of the issues with police and their not wanting to be recorded doing their jobs.

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Seattle: City is put between 'a rock and a hard place'

This story seems a little bizarre at first blush. It seems that an attorney in Seattle, a Mr. James Egan, wanted to view the dashcam video from some cruisers in Seattle, during the normal course of police business.

The response from the city, instead of saying "yes" or "no", was to file a lawsuit against the attorney.

Did this guy 'interfere' with cops?

This story, from KVUE-TV, examines the charges against a Mr. Antonio Buehler, in Austin.

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It would be easy to assume that the officers were just "doing their job"... until a video showed up, which seems to contradict what the police report says.

As the video suggests, you decide for yourself.

Gun Control Kills Jobs

The Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com) has an interesting take on the unemployment crisis that the current administration is trying to address. The subtitle of this article says "Stimulate the economy by repealing pointless firearms restrictions."

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Newsbusters: Washington Post Laments 'Easy Access to Guns'

Ken Shepherd, at newsbusters.org, discusses the Washington Post article about a recent murder of a Park Ranger. Instead of talking much about a person who would murder a Park Ranger, the Post seems to hold a "cartoonish view of gun-owners as ill-tempered hotheads who cannot resolve verbal arguments without force of arms."

Proulx: No ban on guns in class

From the Union Leader, we read a story about banning guns, or actually, NOT banning guns, on college campus.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111116/NEWS06/711169997

Be sure to voice your opinion. There is a poll that you can click to vote for your opinion about this topic. And also be sure to glance at some of the comments that others have left over at their site... you will probably notice many of the same, stale arguments by the anti-rights crowd, including:

"If it saves one child's life..."
"Shootout in the OK Corral..."
"Wild wild west..."

NYPD Planted Drugs on People, says Former Detective

<img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_picture38_12737015... align="right">According to Anderson, who testified at trial Wednesday, New York City police regularly planted drugs on innocent people to meet quotas. Anderson should know. He was arrested in 2008 for planting cocaine on four men in a bar in Queens.

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