:: walterindenver ::

:: Friday, April 04, 2003 ::

Out of Town

Will be at the state Libertarian Party convention. Back Monday.

:: Walter 5:26 PM [+] ::
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Good News!

Thirty-eight of the people convicted in the Tulia, TX drug sting have had their convictions vacated. (from Talkleft) There might not have been a guilty one in the bunch, and now they're all free. Some of them had been sentenced to ten years or more in prison.

You can read what I first wrote about this last July.

:: Walter 8:58 AM [+] ::
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Possible Terror Cell Arrested in Denver

According to the Rocky Mountain News.

Federal authorities are fighting to keep three local Pakistani men locked up because they might be terrorists planning to attack the United States.
They aren't charged with that, however.
Irfan Kamran, 32, and Sajjad Nasser, age unknown, both of Denver, and Haroon Rashid, 32, of Lakewood, are charged only with conspiring to hide an illegal immigrant.
They and three other family members allegedly lied to authorities to bring a seventh family member into the United States illegally from Pakistan.
But federal prosecutors contend that the three men are dangerous because they told others they supported the Taliban, the former rulers of Afghanistan, and the terrorist group al-Qaida.
The three allegedly said they wanted to join in the jihad, or holy war, against the U.S. Two said they traveled to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, and one of them claimed to have killed U.S. troops there, according to government documents.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

:: Walter 8:38 AM [+] ::
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Strong Arm Tactics in Chicago

Mayor Daley wants to use Meigs Field airport as parkland. Naturally, some folks don't like the idea, and threatened a lawsuit. Hizzoner circumvented the possible suit by preemptively bulldozing the place.

“There’s no logic,” said Steve Whitney of Friends of Meigs Field. “They dug Xs into the runway all the way down.”
What’s more, a number of small planes remained parked at the airfield, with no runway now to leave, he said, adding a taxiway might have to be used. “From our perspective, this is a pure and simple land grab,’’ he said.
Friends president Rachel Goodstein called Daley’s methods “creepy,’’ and officials said their group is considering a lawsuit at the state and federal level.

Creepy is putting it mildly. As they say over at Samizdata, the state is not your friend.

(link via Amish Tech Support)

:: Walter 7:56 PM [+] ::
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