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A Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or talking about things, or eating things — that represent guns, but aren’t actually anything like real guns. The bill also includes a section mandating counseling for school officials who fail to distinguish between guns and things that resemble guns. School officials who fail to make such a distinction more than once would face discipline themselves.

New York Times....
Contrast “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
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“This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.” Then the dispatcher asked, “O.K., and this guy — is he white, black or Hispanic?” Only then did Mr. Zimmerman say, “He looks black.”

Bad laws created by the government actually can help people make more money by going to the black market. Imagine that

PACK YOUR BAGS... WE'RE GOING TO WAR. YOU WILL NEED: TWO BLACK SHIRTS, TWO PAIR OF BLACK PANTS, ONE PAIR OF BLACK BOOTS, TWO PAIR BLACK SOCKS, ONE BLACK JACKET, BURIAL MONEY, SENSE OF HUMOR (OPTIONAL).

If all the world’s informal markets were formed into a single independent nation, its $10 trillion economy would be the second-largest on the planet (behind only the US). These markets thrive in places where taxes are low, poverty is high, and resources are scarce. The colors on this map indicate the size of each country’s underground economy, as a percentage of its GDP

How did "our" civil servant civilian police we go from handguns and the occasional shotgun to Machine guns, Armored vehicles, and a mentality of "inflict maximum damage on the enemy" versus doing their level best to enforce laws while respecting constitutional rights?

LOS ANGELES -- A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform in a 2009 encounter that set off days of rioting in the city.

The jury deliberated more than six hours over two days to convict Johannes Mehserle in the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot to death as he lay face-down.

And the Four Loko black market begins. Police do a sting operation and women face up to three years in jail.

With cigarette prices up and the number of smoke-friendly places down, the black market for loosies is now thriving on the streets. Rarely does a minute go by without a customer stopping just long enough to pass a dollar bill to Lonnie Loosie, known to the police by his given name, Lonnie Warner, 50. “The tax went up, and we started selling 10 times as much,” Mr. Warner said.