Texas DPS Gathering More Crap

August 01, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Remember the Department of Public Safety in Texas saying they found bags of feces at the Capitol during the demonstrations against restricting Texas women’s constitutional rights?  And now nobody can find the feces or that it ever even happened or exisited?

Well, Baby, they ain’t finished yet.

Now they want your Twitter account.

AUSTIN — State police have demanded Twitter records from two users that officials allege made “terroristic threats” against lawmakers who pushed for abortion restrictions.

One targeted user, Denise Romano, an Austin woman with a private Twitter account, explains on her page that posts are “satirical.” The second user’s account is anonymous and was unused for more than a year before a string of tweets specified in the Texas Department of Public Safety probe.

In what appears to be an unprecedented move in Texas, law enforcement officials subpoenaed the Twitter users’ information in a criminal investigation.

“I haven’t heard of a tweet being used for the basis of a criminal case,” said Paul Watler, a Dallas-based First Amendment lawyer and a former president of the Texas Freedom of Information Foundation.

And who reported these tweets to the DPS?  Oh, none other than Kristen Vander-Plas, former legislative director for College Republicans.  She said the users’ tweets “made me nervous.”  Woman, have your constitutional rights taken away ought to make you nervous, not some tweeter saying saying some sarcastic thing.

At least once a week I say that Ted Cruz  needs to sneeze because his brain is dusty or needs a good whack upside the head.   Get all nervous, Kristen.

I guess DPS is still looking for the crap.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

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