This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Hyper-Sensitive Illinois Mayor Orders Police Raid Over Parody Twitter Account
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Just yesterday, I wrote a post about how a South Carolina construction worker was fined $525 and lost his job for not paying $0.89 for a drink refill while working at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston. The point was to emphasize how the law comes down with a devastating vengeance when an average citizen commits a minor crime, yet allows the super rich to loot and pillage with zero repercussions. There is now a systemic two-tier justice system operating in these United States, and the result will unquestionably be tyranny if the trend continues unabated.
The latest example of a lowly citizen being subject to a disproportionate use of the law, is Jon Daniel of Peoria, Illinois. Jon was behind a parody Twitter account that mocked Peoria mayor Jim Ardis, and his biggest mistake was not making it clear that it was a parody. As a result, Twitter had already suspended the account weeks ago. Problem solved, right? Wrong.
The tough guy mayor was so offended that a plebe would dare criticize his royal highness that he ordered a police raid on the home of Jon Daniel and his roommates. Peoria native, Justin Glawe wrote an excellent article on the subject for Vice. He writes:
Jon Daniel woke up on Thursday morning to a news crew in his living room, which was a welcome change from the company he had on Tuesday night, when the Peoria, Illinois, police came crashing through the door. The officers tore the 28-year-old’s home apart, seizing electronics and taking several of his roommates in for questioning; one woman who lived there spent three hours in an interrogation room. All for a parody Twitter account.
Yes, the cops raided Daniel’s home because they wanted to find out who was behind @peoriamayor, an account that had been shut down weeks ago by Twitter. When it was active, Daniel used it to portray Jim Ardis, the mayor of Peoria, as a weed-smoking, stripper-loving, Midwestern answer to Rob Ford. The account never had more than 50 followers, and Twitter had killed it because it wasn’t clearly marked as a parody. It was a joke, a lark—but it brought the police to Daniel’s door. The cops even took Daniel and one of his housemates in for in-depth questioning—they showed up at their jobs, cuffed them, and confiscated their phones—because of a bunch of Twitter jokes.
So the police raid on Daniel’s house wasn’t an isolated incident; it was just another case of the cops acting shady—and naturally, many in this town are raising serious questions and concerns over the use of taxpayer resources and manpower to find out who ran @peoriamayor.
Fortunately, this story does have a silver lining. Daniel’s original Twitter account was actually pretty unsuccessful, with only 50 followers by the time it was shut down. Mayor Jim Ardis should’ve just left well enough alone, but he couldn’t do that, and as a result of all the attention this story has received in the blogosphere, new parody accounts have emerged. The most successful one is @NotPeoriaMayor and the avatar is Jim Ardis with a Hitler mustache. See below:
The best part is this account already has 7x the followers of the other one.
Lesson Learned: Don’t fuck with the Internet.
Full Vice article here.
The LA Times also covered the story, here.
- 30391 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -



Re: yet allows the super rich to loot and pillage
Just another commy hippy who hates the successful job creators of Merica, and the troops.
Keep up with the Police State here.....
http://www.informationliberation.com/
The headline right now is this Twitter scandal....hilarious.
'The internet sure makes it hard to govern': John Kerry
Talk about neglecting our infrastructure..., we're gonna need a lot more lampposts.
Well he was stupid enough to be traced back from the Twitter account.
People are killed everyday for much less.
Ya'all should just be happy we live in a country that has so few problems the police have time to track down ne'er-do-wells like this guy.
Don't worry, we have plenty of strong, tall trees.
'The internet sure makes it hard to RULE: John Kerry
FIFY John
What crooked Judge signed off on the search warrant? He/She is just as guilty.
Hey they are golf buddies, come on now....
Was this just another Illegal raid and a violation of 4th amendment rights?
I don't see any just cause here, nor issuance of a warrant.
Fuck yourself Ardis...and all of the other self-entitled political assholes just like you.
Let me guess, the Mayor & City are "exempt" from lawsuits too.
It's called Qualified Immunity -- A license to loot, rape and murder. Becomes Absolute Immunity after the government lawyers doctor up the language. All nice and legal like.
I hate Illinois Nazis. Blowbacks's a bitch, Herr Ardis.
First amendment? We don't need no stinking first amendment.
He should have set up a '1st, and 4th amendment rights violation cubicle' down the hall from his room prior to the raid.......
Hey looks like Jim tArdis has a ZH account.
(tArdis as in 'tard, by the way, not Dr. Who)
It's a sad day when someone would downvote that quote.
........ Canada......... not as conservative as it used to be......... as mayors go......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wif4dFOPtiE
If you can't laugh at your mayors or beat them with a shoe WTF good are they?????
...fuck YOU too.
This politician is part of the establishment, a globalist, a plutocrat and these are enemies of national soureignity. The idea of national souvereignity, Nationalism, is their worst nightmare!
If the sheeple do not recognize, that the same forces that rule today are the ones that were behind WW1 and WW2 and fought Hitler, then everything is hopeless.
There are a lot of places I would not want to domocile in these United States, Illinois being pretty damn high on that list.
Even Hitler doesn't want to be compared to this douchebag. Hahaha
Klink ol' buddy, careful or Major Burkhalter will come visiting soon!
Let's face it, the guy was not in either the designated 1st or 4th Amendment zones, so he got what you get, which in this case is a visit from the gestapo/stazi/kgb/PeoriaPD. Pretty simple, really.
You need iron to cut iron
You need irony to cut irony. Fixed it for you!!
Thats funny
Hey Ardis you are really a dick...
I smell a nice little lawsuit, paid for by the good citizens of Peoria.
The citizens of Peoria got who they voted for... Just sayin...
Yup.
The essence of rulership is predation... so that's the kind of people who want the job.
The cops that participated in this should be ashamed of themselves. Can you imagine what the briefing was like? "Yeah, we going to rough up a punk kid, you know the usual."
Serve and defend. Hahahahaha, who is the questions.
The cops should be fired, the mayor should be thrown into prison for misuse of his office. Whilst in prison, the mayor should be made his cellmates girlfriend.
If I ever have to go to jail I will see if I can get the twitter handle @NotJimArdis'Anus
Just imagine if those idiots killed someone during the raid.
I think that is exactly what the mayor was hoping for to send a REAL message of FEAR into those that dont play by his rules...
Reminds me of North Korea, same kind of stuff happens there...
The people of Peoria have no excuse now. They either arm up and unite or they will be intimidated en masse or taken down one by one.
The cops that participated in this should be ashamed of themselves.
"I was just following orders." Fucking cowards.
If you want to experience what a true socialist authoritarian state is, then Illinois is the place for you. Lived there for 28 years. Only return for funerals....
My grandfather of many years passed on in 1999. He was a ardent Republican voter and voted Republican most of his life. However, since his death, he has strictly voted Democrat....Multiple times in each runoff.
Gotta love Chicago!!!
funny.....because it's totally plausible in this state
It's plausible is more or less all states.
Diebolt for the win!
"and naturally, many in this town are raising serious questions and concerns over the use of taxpayer resources and manpower"
Yes, that's the big issue here. Christ.
The sheep have been indoctrinated, they now only care who has to pay (in worthless dollars) for assaults by the Big Bad Wolf.
"Lesson learned: don't fuck with the internet."
Yes, this tiny Streisand Effect totally overshadows the illicit use of force to pillage a man's home and detain his loved ones. 363 followers! Take that, buddy!
He should feel lucky that the cops didn't plant a microgram of weed in order to really put the screws to him.
Friends don't let friends toke and surf.
Friends don't let friends misinterpret hyperbole.
Oops, forgot my /sarc tag. Ironically, I was high when I made that post. And this one.
No prob, I should have assumed it was sarc.
ZH almost made me cry, toke away in the USSA.
Even a fairly suck-ass defense attorney would be able to get any evidence found at the scene tossed out under these circumstances. The police could have found child sex slaves repackaging cocaine on the premises and if there's any documentation (of which there will be plenty) showing the raid was done without documentable probable cause, everything would be surpressed.
Seriously, the cops and mayor are completely fucked from a legal perspective. So are the taxpayers in that town, unfortunately.
Well, I hope you are right re the cops & mayor. Bit, it is Illinois, so don't hold your breath.
How sweet, you still believe the judicial system is fair. What else?
Any bets on if the County Sheriff has been bought off?
So what would be recourse to the situation? Would the Illinois state legislature have to pass law stripping the mayor and the jurisdiction's police force of their powers? The Feds?
After witnessing the point of this article, that a two-tiered judicial, and more broadly, societal system, exists in the USSA, it would be no surprise to me that "no violation of personal or property rights occured in this case", would be TPTB's public decree.
While I would love to see this city's Mayor and PD get the fuck up the ass they deserve, I'll bet you a dildo and a half,for yourself of course, that shit doesn't happen.
I would really like to read the warrant and see who swore it out, just from a professional perspective.
Somebody should leak the warrant.
Ask and you shall receive:
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140417/NEWS/140419023
The only arrest that came out of the raid was a pot possession charge.
What if Jon gets pulled over next year for having a burnt out license plate light? Go west (or east or north or south) young man.
I really feel sorry for the cops wives and kids, they will most likely suffer the brunt of the coming blow back from their nazi boot stomping, I hope they come to their senses before the deluge.
It will be hard to feel any sympathy for the various cops, corrections officers, judges, tax collectors, permit nazis. etc when payback time arrives. "I was just following orders" won't cut it not should it.
That's why I have serious doubts about the "Oath Keepers" and their ilk. I mean what good is proclaiming you won't fire on Americans of confiscate their guns if you spend the other 99% of your time enforcing blatantly unconstitutional drug laws, asset seizures, bogus searches, and so on?
The Oathkeepers formed shortly after the end of the Bush administration. Kinda hurts their credibility. I don't know any Oath Keepers personally, but based on cursory visits to their websites it seems they are into fetishizing the badge, the law, and their heroic image of themselves. In other words, they are cops. Maybe "good cops" (if there is such a thing anymore), but still cops. They will find some way to justify making some smartass hippie eat a mag-lite.
Not speaking for Oathkeepers (because I never served or was ever a cop) but they are mostly vets, at least the ones I know personally.
And I was (in many ways still am) a hippie and they don't have a problem with me being me. I can say honestly, you really don't want to fuck around with some of these guys in an offensive way. The ones I know are rational, thoughtful and skilled in a variety of things besides just killing people.
Just sayin, reach out, get to know one or two and see if your opinion changes.
A few even smoke weed and come in all shapes, sizes & colors ;-)
Good to know.
Have you ever heard through the grapevine that an Oath Keeper was fired for refusing to bring the hammer down on someone? I've never heard of such a thing even though I spend way too much time on the interwebs. The Google results are sparse. Probably doesn't happen very often.
Officers are taught that they DO NOT HAVE TO follow orders from their superiors if they think the order is wrong, unethical or immoral, if thats what your asking.
Now, if you're asking if an unethical or immoral officer would carry out such an order from a superior officer, thats another thing completely.
Officers have been known to get fragged too, just to get around the paper work ;-)
That's my point. It's very easy to say you won't fire on American citizens or confiscate their guns during a shtf scenario. It's very hard (impossible?) to say you won't enforce unconstitutional laws or employ military tactics during peacetime.
To me a real Oath Keeper would refuse any and all orders that stemmed from blatantly unconstitutional, unamerican laws such as drug prohibition, asset forfeiture, victimless crimes, etc.
Yeah, let's see them take and live up to an oath that matters every day.
The Oath Keeper oaths are mainly geared towards martial law scenarios. They don't explicitly cover drugs, asset forfeiture, raw milk, lemonade stands, illegal camping, etc. However, they do have an oath about warrantless searches (which cops do all the time), and an oath about not trampling the right to free speech (which cops also do all the time with protesters, including Jon Daniel here). There is an oath about no property confiscations in a SHTF scenario but cops unjustly confiscate property all the time. There is even an established legal mechanism for when they actually bother going through the courts: Your property is charged with being an accessory to a crime. You (supposedly) have Constitutional rights, but your property doesn't, so it cannot defend itself against the Law. You lose your stuff even if the crimminal case against you never goes to court. Proceeds go straight to the donut fund. I have to wonder how many Oath Keepers are involved in this day-to-day tyranny. "Just enforcing the Law" doesn't make it any less evil. It also morally grinds people down and makes the final push into the ovens easier.
Thank you.
Remember, only 1% of oathkeepers are actual members of that group. The other 99% sort of float around, heh heh.
The ones I know only follow the US Constitution. Which means they disregard 90% of raw milk, etc edicts from the Queen.
The way I understand it, is as you describe.
More of the basic oath (already sworn to) to defend the people against tyranny, with their lives if necessary. And not to be involved in enforcing King Obama's seemingly daily edicts & declarations regarding health insurance, raw milk, SUV's, vaccination scare mongering and the other assorted regulatory nonsense which spring forth from the kings courts.
The IRS, HHS, EPA, USDA etc. are the ones enforcing/imposing all that crap, with the permission of the people, apparently.
Not Oath Keepers ;-)
I was in the military and have been around enough cops to know that many soliders and cops are stressed out, wife-beating, bullies and criminals.
What I see is selective "Oath Keeping". Basically, "we don't take your guns or fire on American citizens in a shtf scenario, but we will vigorously enforce every unconstitutional law on the books during peacetime." That seems like an awfully easy oath to take. If they refused to enforce grossly unconstitutional laws and tactics during peacetime, they'd be out of a paycheck, and I don't see that heppening.
Unfortunately, there are indeed a lot of conservative zombies just like the liberal zombies. You know the type; when "their guy" is in charge (nevermind DC is it's own animal regardless of president), everything's good and you're a terrorist if you question it. But when "the other guy" is in charge, these people become the boldest activists you've ever seen. No thought ever occurs in either state, just an us vs. them kneejerk.
Why do the lambs still use Farcebook and Twatter? You only set yourself up to be pulled into the system.
Only 50 followers originally? Heck, I only have five.
Elwood Blues: Illinois Nazis? Pfffff!
How times change....
And the lesson of the story is, when on the internet make sure you make tracking hard and don't trust any Google, Facebook, Tweeter or any other piece of shit site out there with you privacy, or any personally identifying information.
The real lessons of the story are:
1) They are at war against you, therefore you are at war against them. Plan and act accordingly.
2) Do not trust a corporate entity, as they ARE the government.
3) Use Tor, PGP, TrueCrypt as need be to secure your nomme de guerre.
“My guillotine’s nomme de guerre is ‘slice.’”
Dear mayor and especially the oath violating gun and badge thugs that executed this unlawful and treasonous order:
Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution states;
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort...
I am witness one. Who will be number two?!
The guillotine list just got longer.
"I was just following orders" didn't cut it at Nuremberg and it doens't cut it here either.
I would have no problem whatsoever with firing squads, prison sentences, and asset forfeiture for the majority of those involved with the utterly anti-constitutional rackets known euphemistically as criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement.
Corzine: "Wha-- who are you guys?"
"The Resistance. We're using your house and stuff."
"What! And, what is that rope for?"
"SGT, find a good tree."
http://www.afn.org/~skywarn/harassment/usctitle18sec242.html
Deprivation of rights under color of law
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Fuckwad Hitler-Goose stepping Fascist Stalinist Nazi cunt swine that eat the tax serfs' children for breakfast. Yeah, that's you, Ardis and your fucking robotic asshole sissified police force. And proud of it.
I know all the progressive and neoconservative voters cheer what you did and I know you did it all for Public Safety, the Common Good and to uphold your end of the Social Contract. You have to show who's boss.
My only criticisms are (1) You failed to call in Federal Agencies for added support -- they will be angry because you denied them overtime pay and (2) You didn't slaughter a household pet.
.
Well said. + 1,098,657...........
I know of another Illinois state Mayor that is also a total douchebag... this one has a brother that is a human 'roid. Both are bonesmoking maggots and supporters of Chakka Caca.
Nothing like abuse of power in Ill-noise.
SOP in this god forsaken state.
Fuck me, if a twatter post gets a useless politician that bent out of shape I should have signed up for a twatter account back in 1994.
Oh wait, sorry... the intertubes were just being born around that time. How time flies, eh you scumbag politicians? Now we all know what scum you really are and can read it in real time HFT-like news platforms. And the intertubes have a looong memory. Just like your NSA masters.
Hey Angus, how's it going? This post gives the old expression "will it play in Peoria?" a new twist, doesn't it?
Hey Jam! Long time no see here. Hope all is well with you. Where ya at these days?
Contact me by email. I post it in my profile by clicking my name. No worries, I sort the wheat from the chaff on that email.
Cheers
That would be the key to any successful revolution - capture the NSA systems intact as evidence. Everything, and I mean everything, is probably on record somewhere in those data stores.
TheReplacement: Yes, capture the spy gear but let's not waste our time fighting the past. Destroy the spy gear. Let the keepers walk out and assure them they won't be harmed. But the system, its infrastructure, its operations will be destroyed completely. Everyone gets to have a "zero hour" and begin again.
I wonder, can you FOIA the NSA records of calls made in the senate offices?
the cops are the plebes. surprised they didn't shoot him for brownie points.
Jim Ardis needs to go to jail now.
That town of 7,000 people (Washington, Iowa) got an MRAP from "surplus defense equipment". I wonder what Peoria has.
Government types sure are getting awfully authoritarian these days.
My town just received an armored vehicle, courtesy of an anonymous donor. A $150,000 item given to the cops with no disclosure of where it came from. Fucking ridiculous. Public servants? Bullshit. Self servants. Peoria isn't far from me. Maybe our asshole cops can loan Peoria the city's new armored vehicle the next time they want to raid the apartment of a pot smoking "parodist" with a twitter account. They can be very dangerous, you know.
Herr Jugen, you haff upset ze local Gauleiter. Ve vill now beat you und take ze stuff.
Sieg Heil!
Guess Jimmy been at sleepover's with Eric Holder. Think he learned some stuff the Hard way.
It musta sunk in..
This is a mayor and a chief of police who need to be sued out of existence as individuals, and prosecuted for federal civil rights violations.
653 followers now. Follow it, bitchez!
If there is a SWAT-style raid such as this, doesn't there have to be probable cause that crime has been committed?
Isn't there a warrant signed by a judge, with sworn claims made by a DA or this filthy police chief?
The individuals involved in this farce are going to be involved in lawsuits until they're on oxygen bottles in the old fascists' home.
Lesson Learned: Don’t fuck with the Internet.
Ahh.....does that include Youporn?
I'm waiting on the day when I get raided for leaving comments on ZH.
Said by the Nazi guards at Auschwitz.
They should photoshop Jim Ardis's suit jacket a nice brown.
If it plays in Peoria....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo
Mayors and police. ..just more enemies of the people. To serve and protect the .01% and to protect their own power.
Arse raping prisons all they deserve.
This paparticular mayor the average butt hurt sissy coward.
if he didn't suck a few cocks to become mayor. ..he would be parking your car for a living. ..usually these types only skill is sucking the right people. ../sarc you bitch
The raid proved the picture right.
Wtf happend to America.
Conspirarcy to commit domestic satire against a public servant.
Just saying: comedy is your best weapon at this point. The power hungry assholes who go into these positions HATE being laughed at.
After the 9/11 inside job it is abundantly clear the the rule of law in the USA has failed .When you have the government killing of his own citizens and jails them for trivial matters the meaning is clear . The contract between the citizens and the government has been broken and anybody can take the law into his own hands . I am surprised that the shooting of government officials , police and judiciary and the AiPAc criminals has not yet started . How long before we see the second revolution ? I predict guerilla warfare will start soon .
Was there a warrant? What judge would issue a warrant for this? Either way, their is grounds for a devistating lawsuit here.
.
Hehe.. I was joking about him sucking his way to the top. But flopping out your cock to the crowd and being arrested for it seems a fair bit worse than verbally abusing some hypersensitive Mayor.
These turds are true low lifes.
Hail HYDRA!
this isn't the first time the peoria criminal police department has destroyed a home in wanton aggression. that police department is entirely a division of organized crime. peoria is a totalitarian terror province, and a truly frightening place to be. i would never again touch foot in that place.
I grew up in Peoria but left over 30 years ago and have lost most touch with it. It's an imploded city a-la Cincinnati ... all the crackers split for the north suburbs long ago. It is a classic, formerly industrial Germanic midwest town that got sold downriver when we moved off the manufacturing base. If CAT leaves (they have a sweetheart tax break, were begged to stay instate) it will be a General Assistance ghost town. There are plenty of lawyers there and someone should be able to make some coin over this. It's not a right wing haven by any means. Ardis won't get away with it.
I go back for a few days in the summer to see family ... nothing ever happens, decades in decline, permafrost of recession hanging over. No action.
It sounds like Jim Ardis would bitch slap Santa Clause for improper parking of reindeer.