Trial by Website - Part 3 (How to be had – just believe every eMail you receive)

NOTE: "Trial by Website - Part 7 Inquiries and followup news" has been placed here on HubPages to both reply to various inquiries and to provide readers with the latest information about this event.

This is a small hub, but the message is a big one.

If you check out "Trial by Website - Part 2" here on HubPages, you will notice that, along with other things, I write there about a deputy sheriff, a "special investigator" fellow by the name of Louis Guthrie. Guthrie’s history as a lawman has been very energetic from the time when he was employed until recently as a deputy sheriff in the Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Department. He is currently a deputy sheriff in Liberty County, Texas.

Recently, Deputy Sheriff Guthrie prepared a sworn affidavit that was used to secure an arrest warrant for Joe Warren, an Assistant District Attorney for Liberty County. Judges, local magistrates, the County Attorney, and the District Attorney, himself, stated that they were unaware of both the need or a desire to arrest Joe Warren. Joe Warren's arrest was surprising to many, including Joe Warren.

All of that aside, Deputy Guthrie submitted a long and involved affidavit that had the result of Joe Warren being charged with several crimes, at least one of which is a felony offense.

Some locals believe, "Good for Guthrie and for local law enforcement’s working for the community without discriminating between the in folks and the out folks."

Others believe that the arrest of Joe Warren is part of an overall plan to attack and discredit the District Attorney and his entire office – to cause turmoil that might be of benefit to others who are accused of crimes and who are to be tried in the Liberty County- based State District Courts.

Someone sent an eMail about Louis Guthrie to one of the locally-operated Web logs (blogs). That eMail was then published by the blog in a short but startling article. The blog's article began with this headline:

"Louis Guthrie Wants to Kill Me by the Giraffes..."　

That eMail continued, saying that a "Giraffe" (rock band) member. Andrew Totolos, had been a classmate of Louis Guthrie in a high school in Texas in the 1980s.The band member declared that he had never spoken with Louis Guthrie during his school years, but he knew of him and originally thought Guthrie to be a rather ordinary sort of boy.

The eMail went on to say a lot more about Louis Guthrie, the memory of which caused Totolos to compose the song, "Louis Guthrie wants to kill me," featured in one of "The Giraffe's" albums.

There were other things within the eMail, but you get the idea. Louis Guthrie had been portrayed as an object of scorn and ridicule.

After reading that blog, Deputy Sheriff Louis Guthrie contacted the Web log and informed its people that the contents of the eMail were totally false. The Web log removed the article and all reader comments about the article from its pages, perhaps because Sheriff Deputy Guthrie told them that the eMail was full of false information and because the Web log that had published the eMail contents had best believe him about their need to get the scurrilous piece off of the Internet.

My own interest in this now very wide-ranging affair of Joe Warren and Louis Guthrie (to name but several of the actors) prompted me to be curious enough to check up on Andrew Totolos and the musical group, "The Giraffes." The check-up told me that the eMail content was a fraud and should not be circulated on the Internet or elsewhere. Whoever wrote and sent the eMail to the Web log in Liberty County did not even spell the song title correctly. What does that tell you?

To me, that erroneous spelling was intentional and designed to denigrate Louis Guthrie.

"The Giraffe's" music album contains a song with the title, "Louis GUTHERIE wants to kill me."

(See this iTunes page about the album containing that song. There were many music-marketing Web sites uncovered in my Internet search that spelled the name of that song, "Louis Gutherie wants to kill me." Music-neutral "Wikipedia" also spelled the name in the title that way. So does Amazon.com from which you can purchase the single song or the whole album. [The song sells for 99 cents, but you should save your money!])

The main point of this story is that eMails from liars tell lies. If you don't know the source, you can't trust the content without some good verification. Even if you do know the source, you'd best check the truth of things before you stick your neck out onto the libel chopping block.

There is a well-known saying, "You cannot believe everything you hear, everything you read, or even everything you see."

I sense that you have gotten my message.

In answer to that subtitle's question, "Hardly!"

At September 19, 2011, I was made aware of information of interest concerning Louis Guthrie, the Liberty County Deputy Sheriff that rather well puts the lie to some of the things that I had been told about the man and about his history as a deputy in the Harris County Sheriff's Office. As it turns out, he is running for the position of sheriff of Harris County, Texas. That is a far cry from being some sort of wild-haired "cop" with a penchant for doing things he maybe shouldn't be doing. I have been exposed to his political promotion Web site (louisguthrie.com/louis_guthrie), and found much of that to be interesting and contradictory to much of what I had read about the man earlier - particularly in regard to that nonsense about his being tossed out of Humble (Texas) High School due to impossible to believe interactions in regard to a younger student there. What really was interesting were the descriptions of Guthrie's academic achievements, his sports abilities, and similar things. So, when you are through reading these "Trials by Website" I suggest that you take a look at Louis Guthrie's Website. The pictures it paints are quite pleasant to see.

Back to the meantime, right? ... (and to why of the "serial killer maybe" question)

There was a photo of a lawman attached to that bad eMail, by the way. It was of a pretty fellow, one any mother and father would be happy to have in a frame on the wall. It may or may not be a photograph of the Louis Guthrie everyone knows as the lawman who had Joe Warren arrested. Therefore, I did not post that photograph here. Who knows? It may have been a picture of a serial killer dressed up to look like a lawman. Hence, here you get to see some genuinely friendly and playful sheriffs instead.