Village Voice...and names of website readers subpoenaed. I am one of those readers

[dajoki]

*Why do they want my name?*

Media Executives Arrested in Phoenix
By DAVID CARR
Published: October 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/business/media/19cnd-arrest.html?ref=us

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Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, where arrested at their homes after they wrote a story that revealed that the Village Voice Media company, its executives, its reporters and even the names of the readers of its website had been subpoenaed by a special prosecutor. The special prosecutor had been appointed to look into allegations that the newspaper had violated the law in publishing the home address of Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s home address on its website more than three years ago.

The weekly and its leadership has been in a long running battle with Mr. Arpaio, after the weekly published a series of stories about his real estate dealings.

“They did not have a warrant, but they told me that I was being arrested for unlawful disclosure of grand jury information,” Mr. Larkin said by phone from his home early this morning, after he was released from jail. Mr. Lacey remained in jail early this morning. Captain Paul Chagolla, a spokesman for the sheriff did not return a call for comment.

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“It is, we fear, the authorities’ belief that what you are about to read here is against the law to publish,” they wrote. “But there are moments when civil disobedience is merely the last option. We pray that our judgment is free of arrogance.

The subpoena asks for information not only about the newspaper’s reporting, but also the information on readers who may have seen material deemed confidential published on the newspaper’s website, including the internet domain names and browsers used, and any other information about online readers of the publication since Jan. 1, 2004.

[midnight]

1. Isn't that information-his address public information for purposes

of tax records? Didn't the family of a young boy who went before congress, to ask that SCHIP bill be passed, have their address and other information splashed across the media?

[ellenfl]

2. law enforcement addresses are typically not revealed

to the general public. it's a safety issue.

ellen fl

[Warren Stupidity]

12. LEO, not really this was an elected official. This was a sheriff.

His address is a matter of public record. Also I know of no law or regulation that prohibits publishing the addresses of regular law enforcement officers.

[ellenfl]

14. in florida, all law inforcement personal info is blocked from

public perusal . . . even real property records. apparently, arizona has the same law or these guys would not have been arrested.

ellen fl

[Major Hogwash]

7. Yup, but Rush Limpballs hasn't called for that sheriff to be tarred and feathered.

So, outing private citizens is only convenient when right-wingers deem that somebody may say something accurate about the Bush administration's crime wave.

Wouldn't want to wake the sheeple.

[Bitwit1234]

3. I didn't see Malkin, and Drudge taken out in handcuffs

and all the rest of the republican trash, when they published the names and personal information of democrats. How com Malkin isn't sitting in a cell for the information, mostly lies, she published about an innocent 12 year old and his family. This is outrageous. If you are an S.O.B. republican you skate free on everything. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.

[dajoki]

13. Limpballs: "I would not attack a 12- year-old kid"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303534,00.html

LIMBAUGH: You know, Alan, that's an interesting question. I never once attacked this family. I attacked the Democrats for exploiting them. I attacked the Democrats for putting lies into the head of a 12-year-old. A 12-year-old they send out before microphones and cameras to sit there and say, "I only want health care for the rest of the American children like I got. And George Bush is against it." A 12-year-old can't write that garbage!

The fact of the matter is, Graeme Frost was covered and got the health care he and his sister, both got the health care they needed under the current circumstances of the program. The Democrats sent those two little kids out there to make the American people think that they would not get covered because Bush didn't want to expand the program.

The Democrats are amazingly brazen in this at using kids, using seasoned citizens. I never attacked this family. I simply reported what their financial circumstances are. I actually feel sorry for them to be used.

This is another thing. If you would turn on my radio show and listen to me, you would know I never once attacked — I would not attack a 12- year-old kid. I feel sorry for the fact that the kid is having words put in his mouth, he's sent out before the whole country to lie, when he can't know any better, because he's 12-year-old, simply to advance another lie that the Democrats want to put forth, because the S-CHIP program is nothing more than a stealth attempt to get socialized medicine inculcated over as much of America as possible.

You can't tell me that children are 25 years and younger. You can't tell me that a family of four making $82,000 grand is poverty-stricken. And that's what this program would have done. It is obscene.

[MADem]

4. Gee, is a subscription only site, or a registration site?

In which case, they may well have subpeona'd the names of Ophelia Thigh and Heywood Jablowme.

[Wilber_Stool]

5. Heywood Jablowme.

Cracks me up every time.

[Major Hogwash]

8. Did O'Reilly really read that name on his program?

That is too funny.

[ellacott]

9. I think that name was

Jack Mehoff.

[dajoki]

6. A registration site...

So they have the names of Ophelia Thigh and Heywood Jablowme and mine.
:rofl: :rofl:

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Mine, too, maybe we'll be

in the same camp. I haven't been to camp in many years. Do you think we can make hobo stew and s'mores? :hippie:

I got published in Ward Harkavy's "Bush Beat" once but I told him not to use my real name and he didn't. He's a nice guy, we chatted some. But I guess they have my name somewhere.

[dajoki]

11. I love Harkavy's "Bush Beat"...

I get it in my inbox and read it everyday. There is a lot of great information in there that you can't find anywhere else.
I haven't been to camp in years either, but I think I can remember the recipe for the stew and s'mores.:hi: