Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has revoked the concealed weapons license of a retired sheriff's captain who waged a fiery but unsuccessful campaign to unseat him in last week's election, a move the candidate's lawyer called "blatant retaliation"...Ordinarily, I'd make some comment about permitting rights and abuse of power, but Larry Waldie has proven to be an unapologetic police statist, so I can't really get too worked up over what he perceives as an injustice done to him.
"This has nothing to do with retaliation or curbing one's democratic right to freedom of speech. This has to do with misusing department data and mechanisms"...
UPDATE: I made a big goof in this post. See comments for details.