If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people
under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. - Thomas Jefferson


Friday, March 6, 2009

Cook County Sheriff sues Craig's List

The Sheriff of Cook County Illinois (the county that the bulk of Chicago is in) has decided to sue Craig's List because some entrepreneurial pimps discovered that the List is a great way to publicize their pimpin'.

I'll pose my question this way: If they found an ad about some pot for sale tacked up to the bulletin board in a local grocery store, would they sue Kroger?
Or, might they pull down the posting, all the while chuckling about the easy bust they are about to receive?

With 510 homicides in 2008 and 21 Public School shooting deaths in the first 2 months of 2009, you would think that Sheriff Dart would have more pressing matters for his department's time and resources. Suing an online bulletin board style service for allowing the residents of his county buy and sell things to each other just because some of those things sold are of a carnal nature just doesn't seem like a reasonable focus to me.

Am I the only one that would think Sheriff Dart should have looked at the whole thing as a great opportunity to bust as many pimps as possible before they realized that a Craig's List posting meant their certain demise? I mean, if anyone can get on Craig's List and find themselves a whore or two, then why aren't the cops able to do the same?

Maybe, as their next idea, they could start suing the business owners that own shops on popular corners where hookers congregate.
AND, I might add, since when is it the sheriff's responsibility to initiate civil law suits? Don't they pursue criminal offenses? The way I understand it: It is the responsibility of the police to go out and find criminals and evidence of their crimes. Its the District Attorney's job to bring them to justice in the courts. If the DA won't take the case, the Sheriff should take the hint.

Cops suing businesses 'cause its easier than doing their jobs...

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow...great use of tax dollars there in cook county. Could you imagine the revenue from sequentially busting pimps using the service? But no, Dart missed a great opportunity. Hope it doesn't stick to craigslist. Freedom to exchange goods is kinda the foundation of our country.

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