Facebook flap fuels lawsuit against district attorney

In the rough-and-tumble world of Facebook, Santa Fe’s Aaron Borrego thinks he absorbed an illegal block from District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies.Borrego, 36, filed a lawsuit against the First Judicial district attorney this week, contending his free speech rights were violated because Carmack-Altwies’ office removed his comments and blocked him from its Facebook page.In comments on Facebook, Borrego had protested Carmack-Altwies’ decision in May to allow pre-prosecution diversion for protesters who pulled down the Soldiers’ Monument on the Plaza. He was blocked on the District Attorney’s Office’s page by July 1, the lawsuit says.Borrego, a real estate investor, filed the lawsuit in First Judicial District Court. Carmack-Altwies is the district attorney for Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties.Borrego said Thursday afternoon that, as a native Santa Fe resident, he found it “extremely disturbing to see anybody destroy our local Plaza and culture.” He said pulling down the obelisk merited felony charges.Among other things, he had posted on the Facebook page a question as to whether the district attorney would provide pre-prosecution diversion “for an alleged shooter,” the lawsuit says.But Borrego said his lawsuit is about getting blocked by the district attorney’s Facebook account because he was critical of her.“This…
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