Cicero town president wants MySpace poser's identity revealed

Jesus is on MySpace. So is Ernest Hemingway . And so, for a time, was Cicero Town President Larry Dominick.

[FatNSassy]

The page should be taken down, and the people responsible should be sued. This should not be protected by free speech any more than any other type of fraud. Once the damage to a reputation is done, it is hard to undo it!

[FatNSassy]

Besides, I like to eat lots of burritos late into the night. I cry myself to sleep. Then in the morning, I like to purge it all out of my system.

[Tom]

Cicero is getting the documents. The subpeona was accepted.

[maschinetheist]

It's not possible to release their identity if they used a fake email address...so good luck with that. Not even an IP address will help.

The Cicero Town President needs Internet Basics 101.

[Generic]

maschinetheist wrote:

It's not possible to release their identity if they used a fake email address...so good luck with that. Not even an IP address will help.
The Cicero Town President needs Internet Basics 101.

He probably realizes this. Now for a lesson in the law and common sense. If it keeps happening either the courts or the legislature may finally end up regulating this nonsense. This will happen only if victims take action, successful or not. In addition how about saving some of your bile for the childish individuals that did this idiocy.

[Juan Ramirez Garcia]

Defamatory? Did they called him honest?

[Jackson]

Perhaps he should focus a bit more on running the town, controlling the police, and moving the town forward and less time surfing the internet.

What a waste of taxpayer dollars and time. Of course, Cicero residents should be used to wasteful spending by now.

Oh no - will I be next??

[PJ Hoff]

FatNSassy wrote:

The page should be taken down, and the people responsible should be sued. This should not be protected by free speech any more than any other type of fraud. Once the damage to a reputation is done, it is hard to undo it!

He is a public official and if he doesn't like the limelight, he should get the hell out. Furthermore the States Attorney should be looking into his use of taxpayer money for his own personal gain.

[ACLU Member]

Yet another Cicero official think he can use his official position to do whatever he wants and clamp down on anything he doesn't like. Good luck trying to regulate the internet; it doesn't care much for the opinions of some emperor Illinois politician. The very fact that he's an "elected" official from Cicero means he has no morals or integrity; there's nothing anyone else can do to further defame him.

[Dave]

This is a bogus waste of Cicero taxpayer dollars. The Cicero town president is a public figure, and the MySpace page is obviously satirical. This guy is an idiot and probably deserved to be satirized.

[REALITY]

Echoing the WASTE of TAXPAYER dollars!! If he really cares... use his own bucks... naw- that will never happen!

[tbets]

another quality use of tax dollars

[Joe]

So if the Mayor runs for re-election and an opponent makes libelous statements in their campaign literature, the Mayor will sue him using taxpayer dollars because it concerns his duties as Mayor????

What a farce.

[Frank]

ACLU Member wrote:

Yet another Cicero official think he can use his official position to do whatever he wants and clamp down on anything he doesn't like. Good luck trying to regulate the internet; it doesn't care much for the opinions of some emperor Illinois politician. The very fact that he's an "elected" official from Cicero means he has no morals or integrity; there's nothing anyone else can do to further defame him.

AcLU member? Thats impressive(lol) I have known Larry Dominick for 28 years and the fact that he is trying to clean up and run a town, overrun with Mexicans, who bring gangs, drugs and too many kids to the table, hats off to Larry!! I would not take that job, who any price. So before you criticize him, keep your mouth shut!!

[maschinetheist]

Generic wrote:

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He probably realizes this. Now for a lesson in the law and common sense. If it keeps happening either the courts or the legislature may finally end up regulating this nonsense. This will happen only if victims take action, successful or not. In addition how about saving some of your bile for the childish individuals that did this idiocy.

Sorry can't do that - That's how internet works. Seriously, go read a book and you'll see yourself. With proper proxy usage and fake email addresses, you can do anything online.

[Truth be told]

What an ass. This just goes to show how much time and effort the boys in Cicero have on their hands. Gotta love it...they are building themselves huge new municipal buildings on the backs of fine and tickets on their own citizens and Dominick is worried about what people are saying about him on myspace. I'd love to laugh about this but this city gov't is no laughing matter.

[Generic]

maschinetheist wrote:

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Sorry can't do that - That's how internet works. Seriously, go read a book and you'll see yourself. With proper proxy usage and fake email addresses, you can do anything online.

I understand what you are saying. People do it because they cannot be caught. But maybe the technology will come about in the future to deal with it. Maybe just for once, the legislators will come up with a solution before lots of people are harmed by a new situation. In the present, even if the perpetrators could be caught, what law have they broken? In Missouri, authorities declined to prosecute the woman that set up the fake site that ended up with a teen killing herslef, because there was no law dealing with the situation. If you write a book that lies and damages me, I can sue you for libel. But if you lie about me on Facebook, I could do nothing to you even if you were caught. That is what needs to be dealt with.

[REALITY]

Frank wrote:

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AcLU member? Thats impressive(lol) I have known Larry Dominick for 28 years and the fact that he is trying to clean up and run a town, overrun with Mexicans, who bring gangs, drugs and too many kids to the table, hats off to Larry!! I would not take that job, who any price. So before you criticize him, keep your mouth shut!!

Get off your hatred kick... Who cares what race/culture/ ethnicity of people live in that city. This is about the WASTE of tax payer $$$ for personal use.

[cicero employee]

Jackson wrote:

Perhaps he should focus a bit more on running the town, controlling the police, and moving the town forward and less time surfing the internet.
What a waste of taxpayer dollars and time. Of course, Cicero residents should be used to wasteful spending by now.
Oh no - will I be next??

Instead of blaming Larry or knocking the Police, I would like to see you run this town! OR even try and police it! Citizens don't help and the dirty litte choppers deserve to be put in a sewer where they belong! Note: choppers being the little gangbanging goofs!
In regards to the new municipal building: We are one of the last suburbs to actually get a new building! Have you been to the old station-its more like hill street blues!
Some of you people are complete morons!

[Not Available]

Yet another reason why the interwebs need to be *burned to the ground*.

What? Of course it's possible.