A noted Memphis blogger, and a resident of Whitewater, both alerted me to official transgressions against First Amendment rights in Memphis, TN.
Another Memphis blogger, an anonymous critic of police leadership failures in Memphis, is facing a lawsuit from the city and its police director, designed to force an ISP to divulge his or her identity.
Why the lawsuit? We don’t know, because the director refuses to provide a reason.
The absence of an explanation is itself revealing – legitimate policing can almost always offer a clear explanation for its actions.
Here is the blogger’s website –
http://mpdenforcer20.blogspot.com/
Here is a Memphis editorial questioning the lawsuit –
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/25/editorials-blue-crushing-free-speech/