Mike Feinstein search warrant

The Santa Monica Outlook has a major story today about this. For the first time in print there are detailed quotes from the search warrant (as well as a copy of the check). Indeed, although I filed the original complaint, the details of the warrant are new to me too.

“A police investigation into Councilman Michael Feinstein’s alleged misappropriation of Green Party funds suggests that the former mayor used “at least part” of a $10,000 donation to the County Green Party “for non-Green Party business,” according to a search warrant and affidavit returned to the court clerk Friday.”

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Riot in the streets of LA?

From Daniel Weintraub’s California Insider

“The LAPD officer who writes under the name Jack Dunphy for the National Review Online suggests in this column that the city might see riots once again if a jury acquits two Inglewood officers of charges filed after one of them roughed up a teenager during an arrest last summer. And Dunphy says the trial has not been going well for the prosecution”

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Librarian blogs

The Shifted Librarian

Librarian.net

List of librarian blogs

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Librarians against the Patriot Act

Five technically legal signs for your library (to alert patrons about the FBI snooping around).

We hate the Patriot Act blog

Librarian & Information Science News - Patriot Act

Important: The Freedom to Read act
Contact your U.S. congresscritters and express support for HR 1157, which rolls backs the noxious government spying on libraries and bookstores. 

This bill will amend the Patriot Act “to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of any tangible things for certain foreign intelligence investigations, and for other purposes.” Sponsored by Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

You can express support for this online at the ACLU, and email will be sent to your representative.

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Blair in crisis after Iraq expert’s suicide

“Haunted by accusations he over-sold the need for war in Iraq and now by the suicide of a key player in the affair, Britain’s Tony Blair stood mum when asked: ”Have you got blood on your hands Mr Prime Minister?”

As the affair turned into the biggest political crisis of Blair’s six years as prime minister, there appeared to be no end to questions like the one which silenced him at a Saturday news conference during a visit to Japan.

Some within his own Labour Party called for his resignation — a demand he rejected.

But with his popularity waning in opinion polls and the war in Iraq anything but over, political sources said the 50-year-old leader risked losing two of his closest comrades in power while his party threatened to fracture over a war most did not support.”

Blair continues to deny he will resign, a sure sign the pressure is building.

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I laugh at your freedom of speech

John Gilmore was wearing a small “Suspected terrorist” button in an airport.

“The captain requested, and then demanded, that I remove the button (they called it a
“badge”).  He said that I would endanger the aircraft and commit a federal crime if I did not take it off.  I told him that it was a political statement and declined to remove it.

They turned the plane around and brought it back to the gate, delaying 300 passengers on a full flight.”

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Hold on for this shocker…

Campaign donations sway lawmakers’ vote

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Iraqi Shi’ite faction warns U.S. of ‘uprising’

“A group of Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq threatened violence if U.S. troops did not quit the holy city of Najaf, where rumors they had harassed a radical cleric sparked an angry protest by more than 10,000 people on Sunday.”

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