In Alabama, there is a case where a blogger has been
arrested and incarcerated for contempt of court and resisting arrest. The details of the case of Roger Shuler are
bizarre, and are summarized in a story by Campbell Robertson Jan. 11, 2014, in
the New York Times, link here.
The blog was motivated by a property dispute a few
years ago, and grew into various kinds of attacks on political figures, mostly
on Republicans.
It’s amazing that Shuler, impoverished, carried on
his blog “from the library” (where “it’s free”). Yet now Shuler seems to join
the company of jailed reporters in China, Iran, Syria and like countries.
The blog, "Legal Schnauzer", is an ordinary one on Blogger, and is still
up, link here. Apparently there are no TOS issues with it.
I don’t personally get involved in personal attacks,
so I seem to have stayed less scathed (except for that one incident in 2005 when
I was substitute teaching, for which the latest news is here on my new
footnotes blog, link. (prev. July 27, 2007)
I’ll just mention another Blogger blog tonight, “Behind
the Blue Wall”, a detective blog that,
among many other topics, looks at some disturbing crimes recently in northern
Va., link here. More news in this area will come out
later.
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