Phyrfight Intel

More Tax Payer funded land grabbing. In this case they had to sneak wording into a highway bill to get the land. It was already public-use property, an airport. Now wealthy developers get to have it.

AOPA Online – Stealth amendment in Congress kills Rialto Airport
All expressed strong opposition to the special exemption for Rialto, but Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) was “able to persuade lawmakers to leave the land transfer language in,” Jim Specht, a spokesman for Lewis, told the Press-Enterprise newspaper of Riverside, California. Lewis represents the Riverside District next to Rialto. He’s also chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most powerfull people in Congress.

Service Will Connect Technologists with Civil Liberties Cases

Are you a technologist interested in helping out on civil
liberties cases? Are you an attorney looking for some help
understanding technical issues in lawsuits? EFF is setting
up a listserv to help connect technologists to attorneys
on cases that are core to EFF’s mission but beyond what
we can handle in-house.

Over the years, EFF has connected hundreds of tech-savvy
lawyers with potential clients through our Cooperating
Attorneys listserv. This has worked so well, we thought
we’d provide the same service for those who need
technical assistance on litigation and civil liberties
issues.

Here’s how the Cooperating Techs list will work: Attorneys
needing technical assistance on cases will contact us and
let us know what kind of help they need and whether they
can pay. After we receive the request and determine if
it is appropriate for our list, we’ll post a note to the
list with a basic description of the project. (For example:
“CA attorney needs a tech familiar with Microsoft
Exchange servers to assist in recovering allegedly deleted
email messages needed for lawsuit. Can pay reduced fee.”)
If you’re on the list and are qualified and interested,
you contact us, and we’ll connect you to the attorney.
That’s it. EFF won’t investigate or vouch for either
side – we don’t have those kinds of resources. We’ll

simply provide the connection.

Interested in being an Cooperating Tech? Send a note
to cooptechs@eff.org with your: name, email address, and
the city/state in which you reside, and we’ll add you
to the list. If you’re an attorney facing a tech civil
liberties issue and could use some technical help, send
a note to techhelp@eff.org, and we’ll try to help you
find someone.

FOXNews.com

At least one legislator is trying to stop it.

After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld certain powers of eminent domain, State Sen. Tom McClintock introduced a bill that would prevent California cities from taking property from one private owner and giving it to another.

“There is nothing that rankles the American soul more than an abuse of power that creates an injustice and that’s what the U.S. Supreme Court has now unleashed,” McClintock told FOX News.

“There is no right to steal somebody else’s property for personal gain. That is not a right that is recognized in any civilized society and we ought not to recognize it in ours,” he added.

McClintock’s bill and others like it around the nation could take months to become law, too late for Alsco, which is being pressured to sign on the dotted line this summer.

FOXNews.com

California state Assemblyman Paul Koretz (search), D-West Hollywood, is one of the bill’s authors.

“Imagine how much easier it would be, in the case of my bill microstamping, if there was just a number and you call it into a database and you know exactly who it is in five or 10 minutes,” Koretz said.

Critics argue the laws will punish law-abiding citizens and sportsmen by raising costs. Those in the gun and ammo manufacturing business add that they’re tired of bearing the brunt of gun crime and accuse lawmakers of targeting their livelihood.

“I will stop selling ammo the day after. So if that’s what the lawmakers want, is that guys like me to get out of the ammunition business, then all they have to do is tell me I have to spend 15, 20 minutes to paperwork a $2 box of ammo and I’m out,” says Ted Szajer, owner of L.A. Guns.