FLEDGLING THUGOCRACY

It begins with incidents like this, and escalates.

Derogatory remarks toward President-elect Barack Obama made on a social networking Web site are now the subject of an internal police investigation.

So - of course it would clearly depend on what kind of remarks were made, but isn't it a bit over the top for the city to go snooping into what kinds of political remarks one makes on one's private website?

So what were the remarks? Did they justify such an investigation? Can we expect more of this sort of recrimination in the future?