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Va. Woman Arrested for Blogging about Local Drug Task Force
Posted by:
Sub-Q
()
Date: July 31, 2009 10:39PM
Via The Agitator (h/t: Volokh):
A Bedford County, Virginia woman has been arrested for blogging about the
members of a local drug task force. The charge is harassment of a police officer.
She apparently posted on the blog one officer’s home address, as well as photos
of all members of the task force, and a photo of one officer getting into his
unmarked car in front of his home.
What do you think of this woman’s arrest? Photographing, writing about, and
criticizing police officers, even by name, should of course be legal. But it’s a
tougher call when the officers in question work undercover.
The woman says all of the information on her blog was publicly available. If
that’s the case, and all she did was aggregate already available information, I’m
inclined to think she shouldn’t have been arrested.
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First they came for the Bedford Co. blogger, and I did not speak out because
I was not a Bedford Co. blogger...
A Bedford County, Virginia woman has been arrested for blogging about the
members of a local drug task force. The charge is harassment of a police officer.
She apparently posted on the blog one officer’s home address, as well as photos
of all members of the task force, and a photo of one officer getting into his
unmarked car in front of his home.
What do you think of this woman’s arrest? Photographing, writing about, and
criticizing police officers, even by name, should of course be legal. But it’s a
tougher call when the officers in question work undercover.
The woman says all of the information on her blog was publicly available. If
that’s the case, and all she did was aggregate already available information, I’m
inclined to think she shouldn’t have been arrested.
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First they came for the Bedford Co. blogger, and I did not speak out because
I was not a Bedford Co. blogger...
Re: Va. Woman Arrested for Blogging about Local Drug Task Force
Posted by:
Truth
()
Date: July 31, 2009 10:50PM
Sub-Q Wrote:
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> Via The Agitator (h/t: Volokh):
>
> A Bedford County, Virginia woman has been arrested
> for blogging about the
> members of a local drug task force. The charge is
> harassment of a police officer.
> She apparently posted on the blog one officer’s
> home address, as well as photos
> of all members of the task force, and a photo of
> one officer getting into his
> unmarked car in front of his home.
>
> What do you think of this woman’s arrest?
> Photographing, writing about, and
> criticizing police officers, even by name, should
> of course be legal. But it’s a
> tougher call when the officers in question work
> undercover.
>
> The woman says all of the information on her blog
> was publicly available. If
> that’s the case, and all she did was aggregate
> already available information, I’m
> inclined to think she shouldn’t have been
> arrested.
>
> -------------------------
>
> First they came for the Bedford Co. blogger, and I
> did not speak out because
> I was not a Bedford Co. blogger...
If they can photograph, detail, follow, and monitor us, we should be able to do the same to them. We are CITIZENS of this republic, not subjects.
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> Via The Agitator (h/t: Volokh):
>
> A Bedford County, Virginia woman has been arrested
> for blogging about the
> members of a local drug task force. The charge is
> harassment of a police officer.
> She apparently posted on the blog one officer’s
> home address, as well as photos
> of all members of the task force, and a photo of
> one officer getting into his
> unmarked car in front of his home.
>
> What do you think of this woman’s arrest?
> Photographing, writing about, and
> criticizing police officers, even by name, should
> of course be legal. But it’s a
> tougher call when the officers in question work
> undercover.
>
> The woman says all of the information on her blog
> was publicly available. If
> that’s the case, and all she did was aggregate
> already available information, I’m
> inclined to think she shouldn’t have been
> arrested.
>
> -------------------------
>
> First they came for the Bedford Co. blogger, and I
> did not speak out because
> I was not a Bedford Co. blogger...
If they can photograph, detail, follow, and monitor us, we should be able to do the same to them. We are CITIZENS of this republic, not subjects.
Re: Va. Woman Arrested for Blogging about Local Drug Task Force
Posted by:
Thurston Moore
()
Date: July 31, 2009 10:54PM
Truth Wrote:
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> If they can photograph, detail, follow, and
> monitor us, we should be able to do the same to
> them. We are CITIZENS of this republic, not
> subjects.
Shhh. Don't say that so loudly. They might hear you, and then come for all of us.
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> If they can photograph, detail, follow, and
> monitor us, we should be able to do the same to
> them. We are CITIZENS of this republic, not
> subjects.
Shhh. Don't say that so loudly. They might hear you, and then come for all of us.