If this is simply the unilateral act of a college kid, I don’t see the point of giving him a criminal record for a stupid stunt.
This is tantamount to driving up your street, taking everything out of your mailbox, and driving off. Then when the culprit gets home, he opens your mail and starts taking action based on the information he has obtained. Part of it was dialing your children’s cell phone.
This was not a harmless prank.
This kid should get the book thrown at him. If not, it’s open season on anyone on the right that the left wants to steal from and destroy.
What would your take be if some information had been outed that destroyed Palin’s viability as a candidate, even if it wasn’t even close to illegal? That very well could have happened here.
This little democrat operative should be toast.
If this is simply the unilateral act of a college kid,
Who hacked private email and made the email plus other personal information public. This is a felony, and if the guys at DU or KOS had YOUR personal communicatins, plus the guys at 4chan and Wowser or whatever it wass, you may feel differently.
You’d need new phone nos, passwords, cell phones, and other things.
It may have been a stupid stunt, but it’s as expensive and inconvenient as burning yuor car.
I am sure that under the provisions of sub, sub paragraph of the law, all criminal acts that are "unilateral acts" are exempt from any other provisions of the law.
After all, to make it a bi-lateral act, and thus become subject to the other provisions, Sara Palin would have had to specifically advise him of his rights before the "unilateral act" provision wouldn't apply.
F'n with an national election, committing illegal acts, all for the purpose of destroying a candidate is not "criminal"?
Please tell me you are kidding.
All criminal acts are stupid.
Actions and decisions should result in consequences..... That’s not a tough concept for most conservatives.
Please rethink your position.
It wasn’t ‘just a stupid stunt’. The hacker said he intended to use the illegally obtained information against the McCain/Palin campaign if the opportunity presented itself. That’s a threat.
It wasn’t ‘just a stupid stunt’. The hacker said he intended to use the illegally obtained information against the McCain/Palin campaign if the opportunity presented itself. That’s a threat.
Get one to hack into Barack's or Michelle's e-Mail account and see what happens and how fast it happens.
You would see the book thrown at the hacker including charges of hate crimes. And he (or she) would be waiting for the indictment in a federal pen, not out walking the streets and surfing the net.
Well I wish you would have been around when I made stupid mistakes-I paid for all mine. This Obama paid creature will be hero, and I had to petition for expungement of a LESSER charge. Im sorry, whats good for the goose has to be good for the gander..
Are you a mom who’s kid has dome stupid things and you didn’t want him punished????geesh.....HACKING is NOT A PRANK, LADY! SHORT-SHEETING is a PRANK.
“If this is simply the unilateral act of a college kid, I don’t see the point of giving him a criminal record for a stupid stunt.”
Part of what our system of law uses is setting the stage to prevent others from committing a similar crime. He broke into the email account of a Governor of a state, and who just happens to be running for VP.
If a tone of leniency for such actions is set now it makes it harder to convict and punish the next time. Maybe others would see it is just as wrong to break into someones email account as their home.
The perp should be prosecuted to the maximum extent.
And, if this had been the Federal government hacking into your email and getting all the information and keeping if for possible use - your reply would be?
Interesting that you sympathize with criminals, stinkerpot...remember: A man is judged by the company he keeps. Apparently, you have no problem excusing criminal activity...
And let every other wise a@* college lib do the same?
Besides, hacking the interent has to be taken to the Supreme court or legislature to enact more uptodate laws!