Shortly after beginning an investigation critical of the TSA watchlist, CNN's Drew Griffin found himself on the watchlist. The TSA says he's crazy. Being a frequent flyer myself, I love the TSA AND their watchlist and would never, EVER be critical of it or its ridiculous strenuous security policies.

San Fransisco considers itself an "Immigrant Safe Haven" or something like that, which means that when it catches Honduran crack dealers who claim to be under 18, they pay for them to fly home to Honduras. Thus preventing REAL immigration officials from legally deporting them and thus granting them carte blanch to return.

...or so says University of Florida professor Michael Moulton. He is suing Thomas Bean, owner of Einstein notes for selling notes taken by students in Moulton's classes. He is claiming that selling those notes, created by his students, violate his copyright.

Well that does it. I will be creating a new category called Bad Law very shortly.

Judge Richard Bernat of Hamilton County Municipal Court in Kentucky ordered that bond for a theft from 18 years ago be upheld. The bond? $1,000,000. The theft? $20. Yeah, that's justice.

Maybe I should change Bad Cops to Bad Law? If I get a few more posts like this, I will.

An eager foster kid who dreamed of serving his country since he was 7 was denied early enlistment in the Marines because the judge that presided over his application, Marilyn Mackel, doesn't support the war. By denying him entrance into the Delayed Entry Program, she has cost him a $10,000 signing bonus and the ability to choose his career in the USMC (when he enlists after his 18th birthday).

Wikilieaks.org was a relatively unknown website that publishes stories about and links to embarrassing documents about business, governments and agencies from around the world. It is certainly not surprising that the website would be censored in China out of sheer habit BUT because they discussed the banking shenanigans that go on with money laundering in the Caymans, a US court has stopped the website's name from resolving (ie. Wikileaks.org doesn't work even though the website still exists).

The reason I wrote that it WAS a relatively unknown website is that, because of this US-censorship, direct links to the IP address of the site are spreading throughout the web like Captain Trips. The thing that these corporations generally fail to realize that is not too many people visited or even gave a shit about this website UNTIL they attempted to silence it. People ignore ranting fanatics all the time but once that fanatic is silenced in a way that is contrary to American ideals, the silence is DEAFENING in a way their rants never could have been on their own.

So if you're bored at work today and want to see video of the Japanese nuclear reactor that almost had a melt-down in 1995 (and was covered up) OR read about mafia money-laundering ethically questionable banking from Grand Cayman, go to the site. It is also accessible at Wikileaks.be but the document/video links still try to point to the original site. Best to stick with the IP address link (http://88.80.13.160).

Update: Just for your information...

The Judge that ruled in favor of the non-American entity without giving the US-based website a chance to respond is US District Judge Jeffrey White. I hope that any attorney that has to face him in court now will have a better understanding of his views on due process and freedom of speech (you know...some of the annoying parts of the Bill of Rights).

The web hosting company that complied with the judge is Dynadot. It agreed, not only un-link the wikileaks.org name from the website's address, but also to LOCK the name so that wikilinks couldn't just move the name to a new ISP. I know if my ISP did something like this (to one of its customers), I would dump them in a heartbeat. I hope that anyone who has a Dynadot website and cares about the first amendment would find a new ISP.

Possibly in an attempt to justify their bloated budget, New Castle, Colorado SWAT team raided a home in the middle of the night because of a report that a kid bumped his head. When he was taken to the hospital, the doctor recommended that the kid continue his parents treatment and drink water, take a tylenol and put ice on the bruise. Garfield County Department of Social Services caseworkers admitted the injury may not have been as severe as they claimed to the judge when seeking the order for treatment.

Yet another man successfully sued the man who stole his wife under the "alienation of affection" law that is still on the books in progressive Mississippi. The take? $750,000. The defendant appealled the decision all the way to the Supreme Court...and lost.

9 men found guilty of gang-raping a 10 year old in Australia received no jail time as a result of District Judge Sarah Bradley's lenient sentancing. Sounds like that movie A Time to Kill.

King County Councilwoman Jane Hague blew a .13 when she was arrested for drunk driving. Her lawyer has successfully argued that because she wasn't properly warned about the consequences of taking the test, the test results shouldn't be permitted in the trial. Seattle area drunks are probably all calling their lawyers to overturn past convictions...