{"id":41988,"date":"2014-05-15T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/power-corrupts-and-petty-power-corrupts-pettily.html"},"modified":"2014-05-16T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:05:49","slug":"power-corrupts-and-petty-power-corrupts-pettily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/power-corrupts-and-petty-power-corrupts-pettily.html","title":{"rendered":"Power corrupts, and petty power corrupts pettily"},"content":{"rendered":"
Because, of course, when you crudely parody the mayor of Peoria on Twitter, you should expect the police to raid your house and charge you with any other crime they can dredge up with full access to your dwelling, your phones, computers, and online records. This is, after all, America.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Ars Technica<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How a mayor\u2019s quest to unmask a foul-mouthed Twitter user blew up in his face<\/a>
\n Angry backlash shows that online overreach won’t “play in Peoria.”\n <\/p>\n

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Because, of course, when you crudely parody the mayor of Peoria on Twitter, you should expect the police to raid your house and charge you with any other crime they can dredge up with full access to your dwelling, your phones, computers, and online records. This is, after all, America. (h\/t +Les Jenkins) Reshared post … Continue reading “Power corrupts, and petty power corrupts pettily”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,133,12,17,358,132],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-41988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-censorship","category-fourth-estate","category-homeland-security","category-poor-citizenship","category-privacy","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24595,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/money-corrupts-absolute-money-corrupts-absolutely.html","url_meta":{"origin":41988,"position":0},"title":"Money corrupts; absolute money corrupts absolutely","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Dec-11 9:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"We watched the (broadcast edited down) versions that aired on the Daily Show. 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