The gothic splendors of lawlessness
Ariz. official disavows MySpace claims:
Dennis Seavers is executive director of the state fingerprinting board of the state of Arizona. He has a MySpace. No news there right? Well it seems that he posted the following on his MySpace…
Seavers’ page said that he lived “a quiet daytime life as a state employee” but that his friends knew him “as wild debauchery, interested in self-promotion and enrichment. And by enrichment, I mean money. None of this self-esteem crap.”
It continued, “Though afflicted by dipsomania, I stroll through crowds under the guise of sobriety. I volunteer as a Big Brother, only to indoctrinate children in the gothic splendors of lawlessness.”
Seavers claims that it was a joke amongst friends and that he thought it was private. Since you’re reading about it here you can guess it was pretty public.
“It’s exactly the opposite of me as a person,” said Dennis Seavers, executive director of the state fingerprinting board, of his profile on the popular networking site. “If I had known that the public would see it, I never would have done it.”
Seriously, does that MySpace sound like someone who works for the fingerprinting board? But of course some state senator has her Tampax in a twist over it.
But Sen. Linda Gray said she was troubled by his page and still had questions after speaking with him Monday.
“To me this is a sick joke,” said Gray, a Republican who works on legislative issues about law enforcement. “I have a concern about what he wrote about himself and whether there needs to be professional evaluation of his behavior because he such a high responsibility as director of the fingerprinting board.”
There’s very few people more interested in crime than me but come on lady, this was obviously a harmless prank gone wrong.
In the mean time to all you other jokesters out there. Learn how to make your MySpace private. I’m not going to teach you or else I wouldn’t have great stories like these.
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8 opinions for The gothic splendors of lawlessness
BelchSpeak
May 22, 2007 at 11:52 am
There is a slightly bigger issue at play here. Very soon all of the state fingerprinting staffs will have to undergo a background check and hold a secret clearance as part of the national ID initiative.
Anyone working in biometrics must be certified to prevent them from being bribed or otherwise enticed into providing falsified identities to criminals, terrorists or illegal aliens.
Something like this myspace page may come back to haunt him. Sure it was a joke, but it was in poor taste. If the dude loses his job over this, its his own fault.
Carl
May 24, 2007 at 6:24 pm
To Trench– Apparently you haven’t been the subject of a harmless prank , as you minimize it. Seavers has spent years systematically destroying careers of thousands working in the trenches of human service throughout the State of Arizona– from CPS workers to juvenile detention workers to VR to prison guards to group home residential staff to educational staff to those working with the elderly and developmentally disabled. The lessons of history are clear– and unless you completely tuned out Naziism, McCarthyism, Kosovo, Darfur, Uganda and a host of other ethnic cleansings which have occurred within the past generation, you have no clue that Seavers and his ilk are tips of slimy icebergs severely damaging the thin thread of civilization; a harmless prankster does not cause damage to others. One who causes harm to others is vile. In this case, Seavers passed himself off (true or not) as a pederast, a child molester, and a person of the utmost lack of integrity. This message is for posting as a formal way to let those fiends out there know that fiendishness is Dennis Seavers, not in his MySpace guise, but in his guise as a guiltless judge and jury who sets the standards for decent and acceptible behavior in others, ruining lives and careers along the way. When a person such as Seavers sets himself up as the Executive Director of a powerful State agency, he must accept the limitations on pranksterism that such a role entails. Thank you.
Trench
May 25, 2007 at 6:24 am
Carl, you either have a grudge against Seavers or you’re in desperate need of some tin foil.
Wilson
May 26, 2007 at 1:01 am
Trench ~ Please do some homework regarding the mandates Arizona State Fingerprint Board and the Arizona State Legislature has created for the board’s ‘freedom of rulings’. You will find that Carl speaks the truth. Sen. Linda Gray, as she herself noted, has dealt with Seavers before, and there is reason to question his professionalism and motives in his position regarding responsibility to Arizona’s fingerprint clearances. I applaud Senator Gray for her awareness and forward thinking in resolving the bigger picture of problems with Dennis Seavers’ and his influences over the rest of the AZ Fingerprint Board. It is not the ‘blind justice’ we all hoped it to be.
Mellie
May 31, 2007 at 6:25 am
This is absolutely ridiculous. Having known Mr. Seavers on a personal basis for many years I can say that he takes his work very seriously. I know that in his time as director of the fingerprint board, he has never had any problems. His private life should be left alone. He is a smart, funny, intellectual person and I have never known him to hurt anyone. He was joking in his myspace blogs. These were silly musings meant for the people that know him, and they are amusing because anyone that knows Mr. Sevears knows that his description of himself on myspace is the exact opposite of who he is. He meant it to be tongue in cheek. By the way, he is not East Indian either, as stated on his myspace page.
Wilson
Jun 5, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Mellie ~ Your choice of words is most interesting. Many of the people whose career futures await his interpretation of their “private lives” are known to be equally “smart, funny, intelligent person(s)” and are “never known to hurt anyone.” Yet, by his personal declarations, cast enough shadow of doubt over them that they be deemed unemployable. . . He has a responsibility to the community in and out of his office hours, jokes or no jokes. Bad form. indeed. . . In fact, would he not revolk fingerprint clearance rights for such tongue-in-cheek public display? Don’t even get me started about MySpace!
kristen
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:04 am
I have been waiting for 18 1/2 months to get my clearance card from him. He interviewed me then said it might be 30-60 days before I hear from the FP board. Right! That was October of 2005. I am an unemployed nurse because of him.
Wilson
Jun 21, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Kristen ~ My sympathies! The state of Arizona cannot continue to allow such breech of citizen right to work and reasonable decision time period. Interesting how the Fingerprint Board found time ALREADY to make a firm decision on Mr. Seavers’ disciplinary action, yet you still wait 18 months after their promise of 90 day maximum? Something stinks in Arizona, and it’s not just Seavers’ old mySpace site!
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