[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Troll arrested

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Troll arrested
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1196799866.shtml


   Breaking news from [1]Little Green Footballs:

     One type of troll we see all the time at LGF is known as a "moby,"
     after the pop star Mobyâwho publicly advocated posting "false flag"
     comments at right wing web sites, posing as extremist nut jobs, in
     order to discredit those sites.

     But this deceptive practice can actually be dangerous for the moby.
     In Milwaukee, a teacher pretending to be a whacked-out
     teacher-hater at a conservative blog was [2]not only caught and
     suspended from his job, but arrested.

     West Bend - As readers of a conservative blog debated the subject
     of teacher salaries, a writer using the pseudonym "Observer"
     weighed in.

     The West Bend teachers' salaries made him sick, the person wrote,
     adding that the 1999 Columbine High School killers had the right
     idea.

     "They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One
     shot at a time! Too bad the liberls (sic) rip them; they were heros
     (sic) and should be remembered that way," the writer said.

     But police say the writer was a teacher himself - and the past
     president of a teachers union - apparently posing as a
     teacher-hater.

     James Buss was arrested Thursday by West Bend police, and the
     46-year-old Cudahy man could face criminal charges. He has been
     suspended from his job as a teacher at Oak Creek High School.

     Buss, a former president of the Oak Creek School District's
     teachers union, is on an indefinite leave of absence from the
     school pending further investigation, district Superintendent Sara
     Larsen said. He teaches chemistry and has been employed at the
     school since 1994.

     Buss didn't return phone calls to his home.

     But Owen Robinson, a West Bend resident and administrator of
     bootsandsabers.com - a collection of news and conservative
     commentary where the message was posted at 6:50 p.m. Nov. 16 - said
     Friday that it seemed that "Observer" was "posing as a
     conservative, right-wing whack job to discredit" the Web site's
     discussion of teachers' salaries. 

   I guess the police are getting serious about this sort of thing. Good
   to know.

References

   1. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
   2. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=692024