Off topic- Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis

[BU freak]

My biggest issue is that Ardis needs to get a hobby! He actually has time to go through twitter accounts and utilize a SWAT team to raid a house for something so petty? Put a pink dress on Mr Sensitivity! If you are so concerned about image and appearance get your **** teeth fixed!
I guess with these comments I can expect a SWAT team at my door tonight.

[Da Coach]

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The guy's excuse that he had since altered his account is like trying to say I am not guilty of speeding because now I have slowed down...

But how many speeders have multiple warrants sought, and have a virtual SWAT team with 7 policemen in bullet-proof vests invade their home, have private property seized, then have the police leave without arresting them or charging them with anything?

Regardless or what boorish or immature behavior prompted it, I think most citizens are embarrassed by this abuse of power and national ridicule.

[BU freak]

Construction crews have been dispatched to Jim Ardis' home to build a room addition to house his massive ego

[Da Coach]

Latest-
No charges filed

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140423/NEWS/140429547?utm_content=buffer86927&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[amckillip]

Latest-
No charges filed
http://www.pjstar.com/article/201404...ampaign=buffer

This is Ardis' attempt to save face. He grossly abused power, exposed himself and 3 judges as corrupt and now he hopes it will just go away... And in Peoria, people are so apathetic, it just may...

The twitter account was childish, but in no way illegal at all anyone who has taken a basic law and ethics class can distinguish that. The fact a search warrant was granted and this guys home was raided is outrageous. Talk about unreasonable search and seizure...

[bradleyfan124]

I hope those people sue the hell out of Ardis and the city of Peoria

[lefty]

I hope those people sue the hell out of Ardis and the city of Peoria

which person...the guy who acted like an ***** with the fake twitter or the guy with drugs...?

I don't agree with what Ardis did by any means but lawsuits in this instance wouldn't be the answer....there are enough ridiculous ones out there already

[bradleyfan124]

I agree there are ridiculous lawsuits out there but using ones office to further ones vendetta against another is not one of them.

[wily coyote]

I hope those people sue the hell out of Ardis and the city of Peoria

Bfan, if they do i hope I'm on the trial. Maybe what the mayor did was puhing his authority to far but what they did was totally wrong in many ways. Those people don't want to look over to the jury box and see my smiling face.

[Gwright]

which person...the guy who acted like an ***** with the fake twitter or the guy with drugs...?

I don't agree with what Ardis did by any means but lawsuits in this instance wouldn't be the answer....there are enough ridiculous ones out there already

Are you serious? I literally logged in for the first time in YEARS to tell you to read the freaking 4th amendment. I'd also love to know where you got your Law degree to judge the frivolity of law suits.

Jesus Christ, WEED!!!! WEED!!! A CRIMINAL!!! DEATH PENALTY FOR WEED!!! DRUUGSUGUUGGGS!!!!

Get a grip and go outside, kids in high school are shooting heroin, and you are worried about some guy with a parody twitter smoking weed in his own house???

Do you get up and try to strangle Steven Colbert when his show goes on?

You used profanity in this post, I'm sending in the Swat team as we speak, bend over for the cavity search.

[Gwright]

Bfan, if they do i hope I'm on the trial. Maybe what the mayor did was puhing his authority to far but what they did was totally wrong in many ways. Those people don't want to look over to the jury box and see my smiling face.

You sound like a pompous ass. I bet your daughter smokes weed with the guys in question. She probably does other stuff with them as well. Did that taint your opinion of them?

[tornado]

let's not argue - I think we agree a lot of stupidity on both sides here...
but suing officials in authority will only cause them to be more hesitant to go after others perceived as lawbreakers...

the system already has plenty of safeguards in place and today's newspaper shows a few...
the state's attorney has declined to file any charges, and in time the pot charges might get dropped as well since then the probably cause argument is weak...

In the end - we will forget all this just like most have forgotten all the incredibly silly & overhyped charges against one of our former mayors.

[Gwright]

In open reply to everyone supporting the mayor's actions, or at least speaking down on the guys who the mayor targeted.

Y'all need to get a grip on reality, go out and actually talk to people in the younger generation (that aren't your grandkids or children putting on a fake face to seem like angels). If you think that weed and a parody twitter are bad... If I showed you the stuff that goes down on dating apps like tinder, grindr, or even a photo-sharing app like snapchat, you would literally shit your pants. If you have a single female relative between then ages of 14-26 she has sent nude pictures of herself on the internet (If you disagree you are fooling yourself), chances are that she did it before she was 18. BAM! let's go arrest her for the distribution of child porn. You laugh, but that is literally the logic you are using with this twitter.

And what's even worse, they went into this guys house for one thing, and got him for literally the worst thing they could find (WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT THEY CAME IN FOR, AND WASN'T EVEN THE RIGHT GUY). If this happened to your daughter because she pissed off the mayor's son, she could be looking at child porn charges when they seized her phone in this raid. God forbid you have a son who has no doubt asked for these same nude photos, he is going to do hard time for that 17 year old set of tits.

Your generation shows a shocking inability to differentiate between the so-called problems of the world (WEED) and the real stuff that is going on. We all have something in our home that a pissed off cop could find illegal, there are enough illegal things in the world. And y'all are ok with a personal vendetta that gets cops into the home????

HERP. DERP. But Gwright, I do nothing illegal and my daughter is a saint!!!!! Maybe, but I bet a cop could find something illegal if he looked hard enough. Turn this on yourself, a cop blasts into your house, and is doing all he can to find something illegal. He is going to find it.

Y'all pretend that this could never happen to you, so it's OK, but Jesus, stop this crap now before you are getting raided for some slight and all of a sudden you have child porn charges because your dumbass son has a picture of his (15 year old) friend's chest on a phone that you pay for. Don't tell me they have no right to you phone, because they do.

[Gwright]

And to those of you who want to talk about hiding behind the internet.

My name is George Wright, I live in Metairie, Louisiana, and I think one of the worst things about this country is the constant crutch provided to law enforcement that is weed.

Do you know that now the "smell" of weed can trigger a raid? Guess what happens when they cop can't find any weed http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...eo_of_his.html

This happened down the street from me. A man called his cop buddy to "get" his neighbor over some stupid neighborhood fight. Then the badge took over, and the situation escalated. (The cop later claimed he "smelled" weed).

Put yourself in that situation, I bet you have had a spat with someone you lived by, better hope they don't have a friend that is a cop.

[tornado]

...If you think that weed and a parody twitter are bad... ....

it may be common but I will not call it good --
it is a destructive force and more and more proof now supports that it damages young peoples' brains.
The fact that lots of people do it does not change those facts - and lots of people get STD's, get pregnant and have to raise kids in poverty, get drunk, do all sorts of drugs, waste their money on even worse and more self-destructive things - and even if 99% of people are doing those things - that does not erase how self-destructive it is and every parent wants their own kids to steer away from it.
if people know the facts and still want to do something that self destructive - then I really don't have a problem with it except that what it does to them greatly increases the odds they will be a burden to society.