Posted on 02/23/2011 2:40:05 PM PST by Libloather
Governor Walker Responds to Prank Call
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker says he won't be distracted by a prank phone call made by a blogger posing as one of his campaign donors, and he'll push forward with a bill to limit the power of public employee unions.
Walker stood by his comments on the call, saying they were no different than what he has said publicly.
A website called the Buffalo Beast posted audio of Tuesday's call in which its editor pretended to be conservative billionaire David Koch, who had supported Walker's campaign.
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Walker revealed his supporters considered bringing in outside agitators to stir up trouble with protesters, but he dismissed that idea.
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Ever notice that Libtards cannot win an argument with facts? The only way they can sell an idea, is by lying or through deception.
Then on the other hand, a lot of us who were 100% behind O'Keefe have a much different opinion when the acting is on the other side.
Except they gave O’Keefe a felony... So nobody from the right would ever do it again.
Not quite.
When our side does it, it is to expose the secret truth to what Liberals are doing, and the reuslt is that the exposed truth is very different from what they say publically.
When Liberals do it, it is (presumably) also to expose that conservatives are lying with their public statements, and their secret statements will expose the lies. Except the public statements match the ‘secret’ statements.
How so? Did he use a real persons name and pretend to be them?
I'm not so sure. O'Keefe never tried to use someone else's specific identification to get his info. I could be wrong.
And the felony was for what???
You’re correct. The thing he still lied about the circumstances of his ‘reporting’. Whether it was the Acorn take down or the fiasco in NO. He lied to get his version of the ‘story’. Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, though.
The crime of pretending to be another individual in order to deceive others and gain some advantage.
In New York, giving only a fictitious name does not constitute false impersonation. Under New York law, criminal impersonation is committed when an individual "[i]mpersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another" (N.Y. Penal Law § 190.25 [McKinney 1996]). In other words, it is illegal to impersonate a real person, but not a fictitious one. Thus, if Carol forges Ann's name on checks made out to Ann so that Carol can cash the checks, Carol could be guilty of false impersonation — but only if Ann is a real person. Such laws are designed to protect innocent people from the losses they may incur owing to the wrongful acts of others and to restore any loss of dignity and reputation they may have suffered as a result of impersonation.
http://www.answers.com/topic/impersonation
That's not a crime. Using someone else's personal identification is a crime.
No. It isn’t the same. O’Keefe didn’t impersonate a known person.
Federal Law does not criminalize recorded conversations....Federal law is “one-party consent”. Since this recording was done across state lines....the Feds would have jurisdiction
This was well discussed in the Linda Tripp recordings case...when Maryland tried to go after her for recording Monica Lewinsky....however the recordings did not take place in Maryland....Tripp’s case was dismissed
Impersonation is a crime, even on the Internet
http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/impersonation-is-a-crime-even-on-the-internet/
I dont’ know if taping without consent is in Wi.
But impersonating as was done in this case ,is a felony.
NY is “one-party consent”. I get that. He impersonated a specific individual. That's a crime.
The leftists are howling: http://www.thewheelerreport.com/releases/February11/0223/0223carpenter.pdf
I did not say it was the same. I did not say O’Keefe committed a crime. I said he lied in an attempt to manufacture a story that suited his ideology. The same as this yahoo did with Gov. Walker. That he used an actual persons name may put him in legal jeopardy, something O’Keefe did not do. Did O’Keefe break any laws by secretly taping in the manner he did? Are you saying it is ok to lie to further ones ideology, views or opinions? I do not like this fiasco any better than anyone else, but turnabout is fair play, right?
Walker was pretty stupid. Never say things like that on an unsecure line.
Walker was pretty stupid. Never say things like that on an unsecure line.
Entering a federal building under false pretense.
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