Police Demand Names of Bloggers Critical of Local Officials

Posted August 19th, 2008 by Robert Cox

File this one under "ridiculous" and "not surprising"

firstamendmentcenter.org: news: "Police detectives seeking the identities of bloggers who criticized McAlester officials on an online message board delivered a subpoena to the site's operator, who says he won't cooperate with investigators.

Two police detectives delivered the subpoena on Aug. 12 to Harold King, who operates the Web site McAlester Watercooler. The subpoena orders King to provide details by Aug. 16 on 35 bloggers posting under pseudonyms on King's site.

‘A list of 35 names is a witch hunt,’ King told the McAlester News-Capital."