JULY 14, 2013 |
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Do you know your rights? |
Do police overstep their authority? |
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Today's guests: |
Steven Greenhut
HumanEvents.com
FlashReport.org |
SHOW APPEARANCES: MARCH
6, 2011
NOVEMBER
6, 2011 JULY 14, 2013 |
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STEVEN
GREENHUT |
About
Steven Greenhut
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by
Jon Fleischman |
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I am very
pleased to announce that my long time friend and colleague
in the battle for individual liberty and freedom, Steve
Greenhut, will be starting a new position on July 22 as a
Sacramento-based California columnist for the Union Tribune
San Diego. This latest “pick up” for the UT represents an
ongoing, substantial effort by San Diego’s flagship
newspaper to expand the scope and depth of their political
coverage and commentary. |
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Steve excitedly told me, “I
can’t wait to spend my full days keeping a watchful eye on the
Capitol and the state government in general. I’ll be producing three
columns a week in the A section as well as a daily blog. U-T San
Diego is a great newspaper and I’m honored to be part of the team.”
For the past few years Greenhut has served as a Vice President with
the Franklin Center, an outstanding organization dedicated to
ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse through strong reporting in the
nation’s state capitols. While there, Greenhut continued to write
prolifically for the Orange County Register (that will discontinue
I’m sure), as well as for many other publications. I understand that
the team at Franklin is sad to see Steve go, but wish him good luck.
For those of you who follow Greenhut’s work through the links we
provide here at the FlashReport — you will be pleased to know that
we will continue to prominently feature Steven’s fine works. |
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Linda Lye
www.ACLU.org |
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LINDA LYE |
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About
Linda Lye |
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Linda Lye is a
staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of
Northern California, where she focuses on free speech, open
government and privacy issues. Her current litigation
includes a suit against the University of California at
Davis for its use of pepper spray on student protesters and
another against the City of Oakland for its crackdown on
peaceful Occupy Oakland protesters. |
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Prior to joining the ACLU in
2010, she was a partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP, a San Francisco law
firm specializing in labor and employment law, where she represented
labor unions in federal and state court, administrative proceedings,
arbitrations, and collective bargaining negotiations. Earlier in her
legal career, she clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court. She received her
undergraduate degree from Yale and JD from Boalt Hall, at the
University of California at Berkeley.
Court Ruling Gives FBI Too Much Leeway on Surveillance Technology -
ref:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/court-ruling-gives-fbi-too-much-leeway-surveillance |
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Video:
4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent |
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“Why did you shoot
me?" |
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(Credit: Public Affairs Books/Jenna Pope)
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I
was reading a book: The new warrior cop is out of control
by
Radley Balko |
Excerpted from "Rise of the
Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" |
Read full story at www.SALON.com |
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Sal Culosi is dead because
he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark
who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to
protect him from his gambling habit.
Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia,
detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old
optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game.
“To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever,
done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his
death. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought
that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech
football game was a crime worthy of investigation.” Baucum
apparently did. After overhearing the men wagering, Baucum
befriended Culosi as a cover to begin investigating him. During the
next several months, he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of
what Culosi thought were just more fun wagers between friends to
make watching sports more interesting. Eventually Culosi and Baucum
bet more than $2,000 in a single day. Under Virginia law, that was
enough for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling
operation. And that’s when they brought in the SWAT team.
On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged
a time to drop by to collect his winnings. When Culosi, barefoot and
clad in a T-shirt and jeans, stepped out of his house to meet the
man he thought was a friend, the SWAT team began to move in. Seconds
later, Det. Deval Bullock, who had been on duty since 4:00 AM and
hadn’t slept in seventeen hours, fired a bullet that pierced
Culosi’s heart.
Sal Culosi’s last words were to Baucum, the cop he thought was a
friend: “Dude, what are you doing?”
In March 2006, just two months after its ridiculous gambling
investigation resulted in the death of an unarmed man, the Fairfax
County Police Department issued a press release warning residents
not to participate in office betting pools tied to the NCAA men’s
basketball tournament. The title: “Illegal Gambling Not Worth the
Risk.” Given the proximity to Culosi’s death, residents could be
forgiven for thinking the police department believed wagering on
sports was a crime punishable by execution. |
REF:
Read more at
www.SALON.com |
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Greenhut writes for the California Watchdog
www.CAFWD.org
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Video:
Steven
Greenhut Discusses California Government Pensions. |
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Websites and
material mentioned on
today's program: |
http://www.salon.com/ |
http://www.flashreport.org/ |
http://ACLU.org |
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