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LOCAL EDITORIAL
YVN gets first threats
The "Socialists" are coming!
SUNNYSIDE (Tuesday, July 13, 1999)---"Socialists Organized Towards Freedom" have threatened the YVN with a civil lawsuit if the online newspaper doesn't remove public police records from its electronic pages.
 
The threat came in an anonymous email to YVN from folks who don't want to let anyone know who they are. Said the email, misspellings and all:
 
This is a formal request for you to remove the uncontitutional sunnyside arrest pictures that you have posted on your site. You have posted pictures and PRIVATE information such as phone numbers and addresses to people who are intitled to their rights of privacy in lifestyle and private trial. You have, by posting this information, comprimised their rights. There are even INNOCENT citizens that have been found 'not guilty' of the charges that you publicly accuse them of. These citizens are now being herassed due to your slanderous online publication. Please remove these slanderous and unconstitutional publications from your website. If this continues cival and legal action may be taken.
 
YVN offered a rationale in June of '98 for bringing to the attention of the people police mug shots and public-record information about those locally arrested for violent crimes. That rationale stands today.
 
We have noticed that, since the YVN pages have been hoisted up, local police report fewer violent crimes have taken place in Sunnyside. Who can claim credit? Anyone.
 
But only YVN has posted online the public files which lie in folders or computer hard drives at the Sunnyside PD. Anyone can peruse these files containing info about those arrested on charges of rape, robbery, burglary, and assault. They're official public records.
 
It is interesting to us to note that "Socialists" are the ones who would threaten us for making police information about violent thugs more accessible to the people. It is equally interesting that Socialists make their threats anonymously, and that they would choose our civil court system as the most efficient vehicle to get their way.
 
One political friend told us Socialists first work against their natural political enemy by discrediting him. If that doesn't work, impoverish him. If that doesn't work, kill him.
 
We don't like Socialists very much.
 

--(LA)

 

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