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Posted on 08/04/2011 11:51:04 AM PDT by Stoat
The Renton City Prosecutor wants to send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated Internet videos.
The "South-Park"-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel getting promoted without necessary qualifications. While the city wants to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an "extreme abuse of power."
Only KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne holds a key document that really lays bare the city’s intent. The document was quietly filed in King County Superior Court last week. It’s a search warrant accusing an anonymous cartoon creator, going by the name of Mr. Fiddlesticks, of cyberstalking (RCW 9.61.260). The Renton Police Department and the local prosecutor got a judge to sign off as a way to uncover the name of whoever is behind the parodies. Halsne talked with three nationally respected legal experts who believe the use of the cyberstalking statute is likely stomping on the constitution.
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(Excerpt) Read more at kirotv.com ...
Unfortunately, I have no clue as to how to start a thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758714/posts
I have all kinds of respect for the police we grew up with. But, they're all retired.
It seems that the FR link you're providing covers similar issues....the title doesn't really suggest that, but here from the body of the post:
helping to oversee an operation that imported into the US “multi-ton quantities of cocaine. Zambada Niebla also claims to be an asset of the US government.
You might like to post your excellent link from the El Paso Times as a post in that thread so readers can see the Times' different take.
If it's posted as a new thread in Breaking or Front Page, the mods may pull it as a 'duplicate' even though it isn't really.
Will do! Just finished reading that one.
Not sure if you mis-read my post: it was certainly not worded well.
The “old time respect” we grew up with is what we don’t have - respect for the police we grew up with we still have, but they are, as you say, retired.
Feds shoot dogs....cops love animals.
You may be over looking the parody rolls that show his wife and daughter(s) having regular romantic interludes with various barnyard animals.
More on point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_v._Minnesota
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press by roundly rejecting prior restraints on publication, a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of “malicious” or “scandalous” newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment). Legal scholar and columnist Anthony Lewis called Near the Court’s “first great press case.”[1]
I keep getting the feeling that they are getting their cue, if you will, from Zero's 'admin'. Leading by example works for both good and evil, and when you have SO many branches of the Federal Government acting in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Rule of Law, it just has to have a 'trickle down' effect.
Yes, Government officials have been acting illegally and improperly since the beginning of time, but it just seems to me that we've had a particularly large spate of such activity during Zero's reign. Just as a military General who loses his mind and acts completely illegally and unprofessionally is not going to instill confidence or professionalism in his subordinates, so it also goes for the Federal Government.
Elections have consequences, and they can often be quite far-reaching.
The Grandson of Francis Scott Keyes was imprisoned in Ft. McHenry, for annoying the tyrant Lincoln, without benefit of Habeus Corpus.
Ironic, isn’t it.
“And the flag was still there.”
Historically, Renton was a blue collar town right over the hill from the main Boeing plant. They had one of thier own where they made a lot of planes. Now it is just another bedroom suburb of Seattle and Bellevue. If you have ever sat on a 737 ... you sat on a little piece of Renton.
Renton is not conservative, but it is certainly not a liberal bastion like some of its neighbors.
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