Phoenix police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of them

CarlosMiller.com ^ | 2 April, 2009 | Carlos Miller

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

You tell me your honor.

Sorry bubba, but frankly, the only freedom-friendly position to take - especially in this day and age of demonstrably corrupt police agencies, false affadavits, warrantless no-knock search executions, militarised police forces, convictionless property confiscations, planted evidence, and a trail of dead puppy dogs is to have a healthy scepticism of the police.

The days of blindly siding with the police in all matters, simply because they're "the good guys" and remind you of Officer Friendly who came and spoke to your class when you were in 3rd grade, are gone. Long gone. In many cases, the police themselves are the bad guys, or are at least questionable in their judgment and behaviour.

In this particular case, who knows, maybe this Pataky guy really is off his rocker, and the cops were justified in search and seizure. But frankly, from the affadavit provided to justify the actual search warrant, as well as the known circumstances surrounding the case (previous conflicts with the PPD, vocal criticism on the blog, etc.), it looks so far like we have a case of retaliation against a private citizen using the powers of the state. If so, that's bloodchilling, don't you think?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

It’s also somewhat amusing that if you scroll down on Miller’s web site the liberal responders, including one from DU, seem to agree with the responders to this FR post.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

[Oztrich Boy]

"There must be more to this story. I will withhold judgement until I hear the police position"



(Posted so copsuckers don't have to)



{Probably too late}

[CAluvdubya]

The only “evidence” I’m seeing here is this guy’s say so.

I agree with you. This is suspicious and one sided. In addition, the ex-wife might have been right about him stalking her. He seems to be doing just that with the police...cyber-stalking.

[HamiltonJay]

Wilson did it, Fauxbama will do it. Of course most people are completely ignorant of what Wilson did anyway, thanks to the dumbing down of the populace.

Public schools are to education what public housing is to housing, the sooner the people wake up to this, the better off our nation will be.

[bamahead]

Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging.



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[Valpal1]

What’s scary is how the powers that be in the police department, city council and DA’s office thought they could pull stunts like this and get away with it.

What part of the internet do they not understand?

Citizens of Phoenix should start recall petititions immediately and looking for solid replacement candidates to replace those in elected positions that should have excersized oversight of the errant departments.

[wintertime]

So?....Who will defend the Constitution when the time comes?

I doubt that the Phoenix police will on the side of truth and light.

[EdReform]

Ping

[freedomwarrior998]

The police had a warrant. You are getting filtered third party info from people who have an axe to grind with the police.

Durrr dur butz iz on da interwebz!!!!111!!1! And itz against da man!!11!1! ITS MUSS BE DA TRUTZ!!!!111

[steve8714]

City police, not the Sherrif.

[freedomwarrior998]

The only “evidence” I’m seeing here is this guy’s say so.

BUT ITZ ON THE INTERWEBZ!!!!!!!

[freedomwarrior998]

I agree with you. This is suspicious and one sided. In addition, the ex-wife might have been right about him stalking her. He seems to be doing just that with the police...cyber-stalking.

You are just a tool of the establishment. You are a statist. How dare you not take the side of a blog rant on the interwebz!!1!!!1! You are a JBT licker. Down with the establishment! Down with the State!

[FReepaholic]

...The allegation of “computer tampering with the intent to harass” ...

What computer is he alleged to have tampered with?

[rabscuttle385]

And yet the bastards can’t even arrest the illegals and drug runners. Their priorities are quite telling.

[FReepaholic]

...The police had a warrant...

Oh, well that settles it. They guy must be guilty.

[jonascord]

Stories like this reinforce the turd in the LEO punch bowl. When the Hammer falls, you had best be decided what side you're on. Obama is going to try to grab the guns. His mouth organs are trying to build a justification right now with the "guns to Mexico" lies. He's got to, or it all falls apart. Otherwise, all these changes will vanish like a fart in the wind at the next election.

Skinhead JBTs are going to be the leading edge of the gun confiscation. And, no one trusts bloused-booted, badge heavy thugs to defend the Constitution, rather than their own power to extort and kill. That's what all these "anti-cop" people are saying.

You are about to discover who your REAL friends are. And every time you or one of your Bros in Blue abuses their power, that's one less. So, whose side are you on?

[chaosagent]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest this guy is a liberal nut job. The entire article, from left-wing paparazzi rights supporter Carlos Miller’s web site, portrays only Pataky’s side of the story. I’m surprised this got through:

Pataky: “was eventually indicted for harassing his ex-wife.”

I know the old saw, you can indict a ham sandwich, but sometimes where there’s smoke there’s fire, and in this case I’m betting it’s Pataky and Miller whose pants are on fire.

It’s also somewhat amusing that if you scroll down on Miller’s web site the liberal responders, including one from DU, seem to agree with the responders to this FR post.

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So we will just assume that you missed the part of the article where it said that all charges were immediately dismissed at trial for lack of evidence?