Jackson Free Press

Bloggers at a certain right-wing Web site are calling for the mayor to investigate who "leaked" the ComStat report to the JFP. Actually, they first claimed that we had stolen their report, since they posted it two hours before we released the PDF on the Internet. When a JFP White Hat found that they had accessed our server, they pretended they'd only been joking about us stealing the report. More to the point, the PDF was made on a Canon scanner in the JFP offices. I know, because I made it, and the file shows where it was made.

As for leaks, you cannot investigate a public official for "leaking" a public document. The right-wing noise machine is babbling about investigating leaks, but those are leaks of classified documents. You boys need to spend less time watching Fox News and more time reading. Start with Mississippi's Open Record Act. Explain to me how it exempts crime statistics from public scrutiny. The only party that failed to follow the law here was the Melton administration when it refused to release stats back in January when I requested them. Like so many Republicans, you betray your conservative and libertarian heritage by ceding all power to the executive. You will fail, here and in Washington, because nobody takes the yips of sycophantic lapdogs seriously. Not even Republicans.

Speaking of stealing, thank you to both WAPT and WLBT for crediting the JFP with breaking the ComStat story. As for The Clarion-Ledger, which twisted itself into passive-voice knots to write about ComStat without giving credit to the JFP, copying independents is nothing new to a Gannett publication like the Ledge, now is it?

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172343

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Bump. To all our special friends in cyberspace, this one's for you. ...

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Brian C Johnson

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2006-05-17T13:30:27-06:00

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172344

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You tell 'em, Brian. This was right on point. ;-)

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ladd

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2006-05-18T22:56:18-06:00

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172345

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Tisk. Tisk. Will the Ledger ever learn?

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jan2006

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2006-05-19T10:41:43-06:00

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172346

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No. But that's their problem. Otherwise, I'm back. Thanks for the great dialogue in my absence. (I did manage to check in yesterday.) As usual, very thought-provoking stuff. And no killins'. ;-D

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ladd

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2006-05-19T21:58:46-06:00

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172347

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Good quote for the yippers: Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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ladd

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2006-05-26T16:36:34-06:00