We're banned AGAIN!

How do you know that you're getting under the skin of the people that you're writing about?  Simple, they do whatever they can to stop your message from getting out!  Much like the way our website was banned from the City of Miami computers a few years back, one of our readers tells us that when you now go to a City of South Miami computer and try to get on to our site, you get this message...

What a shame!!  A few years ago I might have been upset but today with the proliferation of smart phones, I don't thin it really makes that much of a difference.  With that said though, anyone want to guess who's got control of the IT department over at the city?  If you guessed fatman, you guessed right!  I'm told that the IT department is run by a friend/hack of our favorite embattled police chief, Orlando Martinez de Castro.  No worries folks, the fact that we're banned from the city computers just goes to show how much of a pain in his ass we've become.

Thanks to the reader that sent me the screenshot from their city computer, as always if any of you folks over at the city, whether at city hall or at the police department, have a tip for me, feel free to drop me an email at thestrawbuyer@gmail.com or if you'd like to remain anonymous, use the services of www.silentsender.com.

Now, moving on, some of you have expressed displeasure with the postponement of the chief's ethics hearing into late spring or early summer.  Don't fret as the postponement doesn't mean that the chief is out of the woods, in fact the upside to the delay is that those working to oust the chief have more time to gather and present more evidence and testimony of wrongdoing to the ethics commission and other authorities and trust me, there's a lot more dirt on the chief coming.

On another note, we had an interesting comment on one of last weeks posts, take a look for yourselves...

AnonymousJanuary 9, 2013 at 8:49 PMSo how did the interview go between the Chief and New Times?

What exactly was that about?  Did the Chief interview the embattled City of South Miami police chief Orlando Martinez de Castro and if so, what exactly happened?  I'll do a little digging and see what we can find out....