Comments on: Virginia woman arrested for blogging about local police officers

By: Whitney Segura

Whitney Segura — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:51:53 +0000

Wow, this is really intense, I knew blogging could occasionally be dangerious, but this is pretty bad. Thanks for the heads up.
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By: Johnny Law

Johnny Law — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:59:05 +0000

AnyMouse, so what is the real story behind your arrest and search of your house? I know there is more to it than you are letting on.

By: Any Mouse

Any Mouse — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:34:48 +0000

I have personal experience with the Charlottesville PD. From what I have seen their opinion is not that they enforce the law, but that they ARE the law. They arrested me (for having a necklace hanging on my rear view mirror) on the UVa campus, then went to my house (in Nelson County), entered it without permission or warrant, tore it apart and took what they liked.

Do not challenge these people. Not if you want to live.

By: Big Mike

Big Mike — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:41:25 +0000

Why exactly must she provide a reason for engaging in any business that does not violate a law?

I believe the cops in this situation need to provide justifiable reason for engaging in their clearly illegal activity of unlawfully detaining this woman.

I haven’t clicked any of her links or know anything about it – I don’t need to. It was done in public, and doesn’t seem to violate the VA stalking statute someone posted.

The chick’s got a point – if a woman and a camera and a free blog can “endanger” so greatly the activities of these police, what about a couple teams of gang bangers, narcotics traffickers or mafiosi who would have cameras and guns? Perhaps they need to evaluate their behaviors instead of violating her rights.

BTW F THE PIGS.

By: ThisOne

ThisOne — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:09:00 +0000

This all seems a bit overboard, and without real purpose. I’m for citizens’ rights, photographers’ rights, and against police misconduct, but I don’t see any this brought up as an issue anywhere. The first amendment tie-in may be valid, let’s see what ground is broken there, but I don’t really know if I’ll ever know what her beef with the local narcs is.

BTW, is the ‘War On Drugs’ another one of those wars declared, fought and lost based on non-existent rationale?

By: pacific_waters

pacific_waters — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:50:18 +0000

If she has a grudge against them then I would bet it works the other. Cops not above their power for their ends. It’s happened more than once.

By: appmanga

appmanga — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:19:54 +0000

If she’s photographing undercover police with the intent of publicizing them and their activities, I would think she’s leaning in the direction of obstruction of a LEO, which, in many jurisdictions, is at least a misdemeanor.

By: the change

the change — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:24:58 +0000

shocking, however there is a blog, not the best written on the web about afew judges and the DA in VA and the author to my knowledge has never be contacted about his blog..

By: metasonix

metasonix — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:45:29 +0000

Did you know about Elisha’s background?

She and her ex-husband were the founders of the now-defunct National Vanguard neo-nazi group……

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Strom
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/01/17/NEWS-strom-elisha-C.rtf.aspx

They were being tracked by the SPLC.

She also has another website, full of racist rants:
http://www.angrywhitefemale.net/

This story was so “colorful” I just had to put it on my sarcastic blog:
http://shitplanet.org/2009/07/have-you-shaved-your-nutsack-today.html