In the United States of Amerika, each state has an Attorney General who is basically their top-dog prosecuting lawyer. Attorneys General are the ones who decide whether or not to prosecute in any given case, based on the evidence their enforcement minions have gathered and on what best suits the people of the State under that State's laws and ordinances. They are, essentially, the arbiters of the interpretation of State law, which is far more comprehensive than I'd realised; really, most legal and social stuff is conducted at State level, not Federal, as I'd expected. Attorneys General and their Assistants have a significant role to play in the way their society is shaped.
In Michigan, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has been suspended for aggressively stalking the openly-gay student-body president of the University of Michigan. Shirvell's activities came to light primarily through the blog he created, maintains, and frequently updates, which is dedicated to attacking the student. It's available to an invitation-only readership, but apparently it rants about the student's personal life, and those of his friends and family. Facebook activity is documented and commented upon, negatively. Photos of the student, snapped secretly by Shirvell, are posted, as is video footage of the student's house at night, again shot by Shirvell. The long blog posts have been, apparently charitably, described as rants, and are very much concerned with the student's sex life. Apparently Shirvell has himself been filmed, protesting outside the student's house with a placard, which I assume was probably extremely enlightening and informative.
Like having the leader of a Christian political party arrested for child porn, this is just too nuts, but at the same time all too believable.
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