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15 May 2012, 9:30 pm
On Friday morning at 9am, please join me and other freedom fighters at METRO headquarters, 1900 Main Street, Second Floor, to continue the discussion with METRO about METRO police chief Victor Rodriguez’s inviting TSA VIPR teams into our community. [read post]
15 May 2012, 9:08 pm
The position of most adherents of the death penalty is that there are enough procedural safeguards built into the system that nobody has ever been executed for a crime he did not commit, and that the probability that someone factually innocent could be executed is so small that it does not merit chucking the penalty altogether. [read post]
13 May 2012, 6:47 pm
Armed rentacop Tyler John Duhon is accused of sexually assaulting a woman after arresting her for possessing a marijuana cigarette at Houston’s downtown Greyhound bus station. [read post]
12 May 2012, 2:18 pm
Credulous fabulist Craig Malisow, never one to let the truth get in the way of a good story, continues to publish fiction in the Houston Press on my friend Shawn Roberts. [read post]
8 May 2012, 5:15 pm
One of these things is not like all the others: A. [read post]
3 May 2012, 3:19 pm
In which Todd Dupont, Franklin Bynum and I discuss METRO VIPRgate and have way too much fun: Copyright © 2010 Mark Bennett. [read post]
2 May 2012, 5:47 pm
When we spoke to the METRO board of directors last week, it struck me that some of the things that I consider common knowledge might not be. [read post]
1 May 2012, 3:19 pm
Reports are that yesterday (30 April 2012) at about 3pm three uniformed METRO police officers accosted about a dozen passengers getting off the #219 bus from downtown to the West Road Park and Ride and asked for ID. [read post]
28 Apr 2012, 12:01 pm
[Update: A federal statute, 28 USC §1442, allows removal to federal court of any civil or criminal case against: The United States or any agency thereof or any officer (or any person acting under that officer) of the United States or of any agency thereof, in an official or individual capacity, for or relating to any act under color of such office or on account of any right, title or authority claimed under any Act of Congress for the apprehension or punishment of criminals or the collection… [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 8:17 am
At the METRO Board meeting yesterday, we met some non-lawyer members of the community who shared our concerns about the creeping police state. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 2:25 pm
I wrote: METRO says they went where the crime is, but if they had spent eight hours running drug dogs through Park-and-Ride buses they probably would have made as many weed cases, more cocaine cases, and some gun cases for good measure. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 7:08 am
http://www.ridemetro.org/AboutUs/BoardVideoStreaming.aspx Copyright © 2010 Mark Bennett. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 5:22 pm
A Tarrant County jury awarded Mark and Rhonda Lesher of Clarksville, Texas, the sum on Friday after the couple filed a lawsuit against people writing anonymous, hurtful comments about them online. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 12:33 pm
HCCLA President Earl Musick’s letter to the Houston Chronicle on the subject of METRO VIPRgate: Objection to searches Regarding “Undercover officers ride buses in anti-terror effort” (Page B2, Thursday), the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association (HCCLA), which represents more than 600 area criminal-defense lawyers, is alarmed that Metro Police Chief Victor Rodriguez invited Transportation Security Administration teams to conduct operations at Houston’s bus stops. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 7:23 pm
Last month I blogged about the Harris County Republican Party and the Harris County Public Defender's Office, talking about what I called "the greed angle": that former HCRP chair Gary Polland, who is still influential in the party, is trying to use the party (by, among other things, deceiving the party's constituents) to protect his court-appointed income stream: Sometimes good policy happens to be good for the policymakers. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:56 pm
Friday's operation occurred from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 3:53 pm
Today I was on Geoff Berg’s Partisan Gridlock radio show on Pacifica radio station KPFT, along with METRO Police Chief Victor Rodriguez. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 5:39 pm
We have heard talk of “justice. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 1:45 pm
METRO press release 13 April: (Source.) [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 12:50 pm
John Brennan stripped naked at a TSA screening area Tuesday night in protest. [read post]
