This is a stretch.
He may be an immature prankster. He may even be a low-level criminal.
But the defense attorney for a 20-year-old University of Tennessee student who allegedly accessed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail account after figuring out the vice presidential candidate’s password contends that David C. Kernell is neither a federal felon nor a hacker.
Attorney Wade Davies is asking U.S. District Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley to toss out a felony charge filed against Kernell last month and ban federal prosecutors from labeling Kernell a “hacker.”
Okay, if Mr. Kernell “hacked” into Barack Obama’s private email account (and his father was a Republican State Representative), he may not be either a federal felon or a hacker. He’d be called worse. He’d be called a racist hater. But since he (may of) hacked into Sarah Palin’s personal business, this was just a harmless prank and we should all just look the other way.
See how it works?
And don’t forget that he admitted that he did it because he wanted to find something incriminating on her. Privacy only applies if you aren’t a conservative.
Federal felon, yes. Hacker, no.
The guy guesstimated a weak password. Hope he has fun getting raped in prison.
Let’s see if he can guess his new boyfriend Bubba’s password.
I am against jailing him. I would rather see him out in the real world working some minimum wage job in the attempt to pay off the debt he incurred by violating Governor Palin’s rights. The debt should be so high that his father couldn’t pay it off for him and the boy couldn’t do anything more than go to work, pay rent and his food and of course his debt. For the next fifty years of his life.
Not that I expect that to happen.
Why not both? I think the federal felony record will help keep him in that minimum wage job.
Simply because I want the rule of law to not extend beyond what we call “Negative Rights”.