No wonder this guy hates the Phoenix Police

In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department. Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging.

I have a few responses to this one.  Certain types of bloggers are no different than any other journalist and when they say something that grabs the attention of a group, well, it could certainly piss them off.

Second of all, what the hell is a blogger defined as these days anyway?  Am I a blogger just because I write this site in first person?  Or would one consider this site to be an entertainment site sans the word “blog?”  Blogging used to be a form of Twitter but without the 140 character limit.  Blogging used to be constant personal updates.  It’s certainly not that way today and is a hell of a lot more commercial.  Too tough to really define.

Bottom line is that no matter what you do or say, if you’re going to attack a group, or say things that someone doesn’t want to hear (sorry all you Ashley Biden fans), then be prepared to get criticized.

I will say though, you probably shouldn’t have to prepare yourself to get your computer taken away because of some whiny police officers. Oh that reminds me of my third point…..  Phoenix Police sucks some major balls.

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