Yeah, LGF is Little Green Footballs. Either their or the Rottweiler’s readers were doing whois searches to find the street addresses and phones of antiwar bloggers–and then posting maps of how to get to their house from nearby military bases, coupled with very vivid threats.

Eric,

That doesnt’ sound like O’R’s bag. Given his track record of whining about “scumbag” bloggers, and “crazy websites” that are “allowed to say anything they want,” he would probably support the criminalization. I remember he once defended the right of cops to harass people they “knew” were guilty–but apparently not guilty enough to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, if the cops had to resort to extralegal persecution.

Then there are the attempts to make filming the police illegal in a formal sense (like arresting Copwatch members for “interfering with police work” when they were clearly on the sidelines and behaving in a non-disruptive manner).

Hmm, good point. Maybe O’Reilly should make this his next crusade: state legislation to ban municipalities from banning non-interfering videographers. That kid in Baltimore, his name was Eric? Bill can call it Eric’s Law.

Aren’t cops the ones normally always telling us …

Normally? I don’t know about you, but I generally give Johnny Law a wide berth. They don’t normally tell me anything if I can help it. ;~)

Is “LGF” Little Green Footballs? Presumably they are harrassed by Islamic extremists?

These cops have watched too much Maury Povich.

I’m disappointed by all the bystanders. Only one I heard clearly chime in, to criticize a kid for running away from the cops. I supposed it could have been a helpful tip to save the kid from worse punishment, but I doubt it.

Then there are the attempts to make filming the police illegal in a formal sense (like arresting Copwatch members for “interfering with police work” when they were clearly on the sidelines and behaving in a non-disruptive manner).

Aren’t cops the ones normally always telling us “if you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear”? Funny, then, that they react like a bunch of cockroaches when the kitchen light is turned on.

http://tinyurl.com/2uo9m4

A Baltimore police officer was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor.

Clearly the best part is where that video cuts out, with Officer Rivieri saying, “You got that camera on? If I find myself on Y–”