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Palin Testifies At E-Mail Hacking Trial
NPR ^ | 04/23/2010

Posted on 04/23/2010 1:05:02 PM PDT by speciallybland

Sarah Palin testified Friday against a 22-year-old man accused of hacking into her e-mail account, saying later it's up to the judge to decide whether he should serve prison time if convicted.

Palin testified that the hacking compromised one of the main ways she communicated with her family back in Alaska as she campaigned in 2008 as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Outside the courthouse, when asked whether she thought community service was punishment enough rather than prison, she said, "That's up to the judge."

Former University of Tennessee student David Kernell faces up to 50 years in federal prison if convicted of identity theft, mail fraud and two other felony charges. His lawyer has called the case a prank, not a crime.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: cybersecurity; dirtytricks; email; fraud; hacker; identitytheft; internet; kernell; palin; palinfreeperping; palinkernellhacker; rabscuttle
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To: Sarah Barracuda; speciallybland
You were saying ...

Plastering people’s phone numbers so they can be harassed and threatened, yeah that is some kind of prank isn’t it.

No problem... 50 years in the slammer will only be a prank, too ... LOL ...

41 posted on 04/23/2010 2:03:09 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Genoa
You were saying ...

2 days oughta do it.

Yeah... two days for a sentence and the other 49 years for a "prank" ... doncha know ... LOL ...

42 posted on 04/23/2010 2:04:41 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

I’d like to see this guy get reamed in the pokey by some guy named Molly..he can say “Hey David, bend over, and get ready for the prank that’s coming”


43 posted on 04/23/2010 2:05:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: speciallybland

Throw the book at him. Maybe a few lefty loons might think twice before breaking the law.

If he gets the maximum 50 years, I will not shed one tear for this punk.


44 posted on 04/23/2010 2:06:01 PM PDT by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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To: KarlInOhio
"We broke in to put buckets of water on their doors and turn their file drawers upside down."

Too bad Watergate took place before "foiling" became the prank of choice...


45 posted on 04/23/2010 2:08:49 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: stinkerpot65; jimbo123
You were saying ...

You really believe that? That he deserves to be raped?

Of course not -- not any more than Palin deserved to have her e-mail hacked.

BUT, it will happen nonetheless... and I won't be wringing my hands over it ... I'll just say, "Perhaps you should have been thinking more clearly when 'hacking' away at the Palin account. Then you wouldn't have been here in the first place."

46 posted on 04/23/2010 2:08:50 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: mylife; speciallybland
You were saying ...

The same people would scream bloody murder if someone did it to them.

Sure enough... for those liberals, it's no big deal if they do it to conservatives and/or Chritians. If they do that... "it's just a joke" doncha know.

If it happens to a liberal -- "It's a crime!" [and that's the one time they'll accept the death penalty...]

47 posted on 04/23/2010 2:10:48 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Texas Fossil; sniper63
You were saying ...

Made the mistake of using my real name and e-mail address.

Hoo-boy! The Internet is a nasty place for doing that... :-)

48 posted on 04/23/2010 2:12:03 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
You were saying ...

I’d like to see this guy get reamed in the pokey by some guy named Molly..he can say “Hey David, bend over, and get ready for the prank that’s coming”

Yeah..., the funny thing about "life" is that it has a way of turning your own sentiment -- back on yourself... (as he will probably find out with the "pranks" in prison that will be pulled on him... doncha know ...).

49 posted on 04/23/2010 2:15:25 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: speciallybland

Sarah gave a press interview leaving the courthouse. At the end of the vid you can see she has lots of security. Nice.

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/04/governor-palin-testifies-in-e-mail.html


50 posted on 04/23/2010 2:23:02 PM PDT by rae4palin (RESIST--REPEAL--IMPEACH)
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To: Genoa

I got it the first time. Takes the funny out of the humour if you have to spell it out every time. Some posters are humour-impaired.


51 posted on 04/23/2010 2:26:19 PM PDT by rae4palin (RESIST--REPEAL--IMPEACH)
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To: stinkerpot65; Star Traveler

Why do you assume any act of prison-faciliated passion between the perp and his bunkmate wouldn’t be consensual?


52 posted on 04/23/2010 2:36:25 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123; stinkerpot65
You were saying ...

Why do you assume any act of prison-faciliated passion between the perp and his bunkmate wouldn’t be consensual?

Oh... no, I didn't intend to mean it was consensual... I just meant that they like to "play pranks" in prison too... so he should find himself quite "at home" there with the other "pranksters" doncha know.... LOL ...

53 posted on 04/23/2010 2:40:16 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: speciallybland
I love Sarah as much as anybody!!!!

I think 50 years would be a bit harsh, BUT where is the remorse? Has the guy even apologized to Sarah? His lawyer seems to think the whole thing is a joke.

How bout the guy begs for mercy and shows some real remorse!!!

54 posted on 04/23/2010 2:57:18 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge ( SARAH PALIN or BUST.)
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To: Texas Fossil
After reading that, I say FRY HIM!!!
55 posted on 04/23/2010 3:00:20 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge ( SARAH PALIN or BUST.)
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To: loungitude

All crackers think that their crimes are just a prank.
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56 posted on 04/23/2010 3:28:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Friendofgeorge

I suspect the trial outcome will not please the NPR folks.

If the judge in TN is what I expect, Kernell will not want to come before him again.

His father is a Dem Pol, so I doubt they will throw the book at him. But this is not a trivial offense.

I think the issue for the jury will be intent to harm. For the FBI is suspect it will be that he offered cooperation and then renigged.

We shall see.


57 posted on 04/23/2010 3:28:16 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: speciallybland

NPR?

Not Particularly Relevent?
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58 posted on 04/23/2010 3:29:22 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

It is questionable....reverse positions and the son of a right wing politician and they would have been screaming ‘racist militia’. Just hypocrites, all day long! Not a word about the political background of these people and how they hated Palin. That is the motivation, that is the MENS REA, the criminal intent. Yet not a word.


59 posted on 04/23/2010 3:29:44 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: FTJM

“This wasn’t a prank. If he gets jail time, so be it.”

Under standard sentencing guidelines he will get 32 years.
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60 posted on 04/23/2010 3:35:35 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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