Blogger who was fired for blogging about prosecutor (persecutor) of Siegelman has been threatened

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The abrupt dismissal of a veteran University of Alabama employee who blogged about the firing of seven US Attorneys has added a bizarre new twist to allegations that the state's US Attorneys targeted political opponents for prosecution.

Roger Shuler -- a high-profile blogger and leading critic of Alabama's judicial system -- has written extensively about alleged corruption among U.S. Attorneys for over a year. In particular, Shuler focused on two US Attorneys from his home state: Alice H. Martin of the Northern District and Leura G. Canary of the Middle District.

An editor in the University of Alabama Birmingham publications office for the last 12 years and a university employee for 19, Shuler was placed on administrative leave May 7 and formally fired May 19.

Shuler's initial goal as a blogger -- at his personal blog, Legal Schnauzer -- was to expose the corruption of a local lawyer and his allies in the local judiciary, he says. His posts decried the tactics of Alice Martin, US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Martin attempted unsuccessfully to prosecute Don Siegelman for allegations of attempted bid-rigging in 2004, only to have the case dismissed with prejudice.

The former University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) employee started to become suspicious that he was being targeted for his opinions in late 2007, when his supervisor, Pam Powell, began what he calls a "harassment campaign" against him shortly after having given him a positive performance review. He says he found Powell's sudden change in attitude bizarre, because they had had a good working relationship for the past 12 years.

On Apr. 15, Shuler received a strange comment on his personal blog from an anonymous user, threatening to report him to his superiors for blogging on university time.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Alabama_bloggers_firing_raises_troubling_questions_0709.html

Raw Story was able to find two threats, I found another.

Here are the threats that I was able to find:

Anonymous said...
not as much to worry about as the schnauzer when he and his wifey are living under a bridge a cardboard box
April 24, 2008 9:08 PM

Anonymous said...
Matt Hart doesn't give a **** about your little case Schnauzer.As for Brett Blackledge,If you dont like his reporting quit reading the Birmingham News you stupid ****.Yours is coming sooner rather than later.
April 24, 2008 9:48 PM

From:
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2008/04/deconstructing-brett-blackledge.html

Anonymous said...
Schnauzer does your employer UAB know you blog at work.Maybe they need to find out.
April 15, 2008 6:18 PM

From:
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2008/04/democratic-underground-connects-dots.html

Google has refused to help pinpoint who could be behind these threats. So, it is up to us. Finding any information about who could be behind this could be one of the most important things DU has ever done. Siegelman and the others who have been per/prosecuted have been under fire ever since they became under prosecution. The office of Siegelman's attorney was broken into, houses and other offices have been broken into, even set on fire, and someone tried to run one of the whistleblowers of this case off a road. We're seeing a pattern here, and this person making anonymous threats is just another piece of the puzzle.

Any information will help! DU investigators, are we up to the task?