Police say it's illegal to mock government employees

[Beiruty]

Said department look funny and make me . Let them arrest me

[Middle Age Russ]

Let's see, you can protest at an veteran's funeral but you can't mock a government employee.....we are getting to be a nation turned upside down by a sense of social correctness warped by media manipulation.

Corrected for my take on things. The old axiom "A squeeky wheel gets the oil" has never been more appropriate to social dialog. Of course the VAST majority of these squeeky wheels are simply trying to upset previous social mores and norms.

[Bullwhip]

This is so dead the moment it hits a court.

It had to hit court to get that warrant. Should of died there but it didn't.

[C-dub]

This is so dead the moment it hits a court.

It had to hit court to get that warrant. Should of died there but it didn't.

That can't be right, is it? Every arrest requires a warrant? That doesn't sound right.

[ELB]

This is so dead the moment it hits a court.

It had to hit court to get that warrant. Should of died there but it didn't.

That can't be right, is it? Every arrest requires a warrant? That doesn't sound right.

The story states that they got warrants to track down people thru their internet use.

If you watch the videos, you will see that there is clearly some insider information. If the information is anywhere near true, there should be a top-to-bottom scrubbing of the police department.

[E.Marquez]

Some of the animation parody real situations that have occurred in the department, Milosevich said, but other events referenced in the cartoons never took place.

and the result of that statement??? I cant wait to get out today and watch the video

[E.Marquez]

the videos are meant to harass city workers and amounts to cyberstalking.

and

Nine videos exist, and Renton police are in the process of releasing all of them to the media.

If the videos are cyberstalking, then would not "releasing all of them to the media" be a furthering of an illegal action?

[speedsix]

...bingo!!! this is more like official oppression...like back in the 70s they'd cruise the parking lot at city hall and any police who had bumper stickers for "the opposition" were called in and told to remove them...it lasted about one day...

[Count]

This reminds me of laws prohibiting the commoners from mocking the king.

[C-dub]

Wonder if the judge was mocked or one of his friends in the PD.

[couzin]

What a load!! If I had every person I ran up against while working as a Fed employee charged or locked up for 'mocking' me - they would have had to build a special wing up at Leavenworth just to house em. Sheesh! Posters above are correct - we have truely lost our way... I am so tired of it!!

[speedsix]

...and tell me the ones who gave you the worst time weren't the ones you were trying to help the most...who WOULDN'T help themselves!!!

[couzin]

...and tell me the ones who gave you the worst time weren't the ones you were trying to help the most...who WOULDN'T help themselves!!!

Nailed it...