User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace

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[sionnsar]

The prosecutor is just trying to tag as much as possible on this b!tch.

Yes, but it still sets a bad precedent.

[mkjessup]

“My real name is John Trout,
ask me again and I’ll knock your ass out!”

[stlnative]

I see this dead child's mother on the local news EVERY week.
This dead child's mother needs to take a very long hard look at herself in the mirror, but the mother is just too damn arrogant to do it. We never see the dead child's father on TV we just his camera loving, bitchy, attention seeking wife.

[Gorzaloon]

The fact that she really did nothing illegal is why these prosecutors are pushing this crap. Oh, it was immoral as hell, but it was no felony.

What people are having a tough time coming to terms with is that a messed up 13-year-old girl could kill herself over a two-week casual but fraudulent internet relationship.

But you just called it "Fraud".

That said I agree that new Law does not have to be invented. There are plenty of other hunting licenses available to the prosecutors as it is.

[Operation_Shock_N_Awe]

well, I didn’t even know what myspace was. then one day I was randomly searching the internet; my name, most commonly used username, my (ex)wife’s name/username.

then this link came up... my (ex)wife’s username@whatever_in_the_hell_myspace is. So I clicked on it. She looked so pretty with her boyfriend.

To read her blogs about all the time they spent in the hotel together, I had to create a myspace account. No, I didn’t use my real info, no this isn’t satire, and yes I “won” the divorce. But, if I hadn’t been able to do that (ghostSpace)... maybe we’d still be married.... and maybe I would have contracted the VD she picked up.

There’s a tshirt on Tshirthell.com (don’t know if its still available) it says “I’m the teenage girl you had sex with on the internet last night” (or something along those lines) the “model” wearing it is a big fat guy

[CowboyJay]

"My real name is ‘Tater Salad."

And I am his son, Tater... Tot.

[darkangel82]

The US Attorney told my friend, ‘You see everyone in that park? They have all committed a federal crime.

That kind of delusional thinking used to be called paranoia.

[RobRoy]

I don’t think it was delusional. And I think you are stretching the meaning of the word paranoia. I don’t think the guy was afraid of them. I think he was making a point.

[TigersEye]

The US Attorney told my friend, ‘You see everyone in that park? They have all committed a federal crime. Your job is to decide who to prosecute.’”

There is an equally serious and equally real corollary to that statement.

[RobRoy]

Is this what you mean: Ever since I was in high school (I graduated in 1972) I have believed that one was almost certainly violating some law even if innocently just walking down the street or watching tv in their home. And if I ever became “important enough” “they” would successfully throw me in prison.

I firmly believe that.

Is that what you mean?

[TigersEye]

No that's not a corollary that's analogous to the U.S. Attorney's statement. I was thinking along the lines of "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross (among others.)

Of course there is another way to look at the Attorney's statement too. Just a simple mirror reflection. "Every one in his Federal building (and every Fed building everywhere) is also guilty of a Federal crime."

[RobRoy]

>>Of course there is another way to look at the Attorney’s statement too. Just a simple mirror reflection. “Every one in his Federal building (and every Fed building everywhere) is also guilty of a Federal crime.” <<

Yeah. And that is sort of along the lines of “a liar thinks everyone else is lying”.

[TigersEye]

Except that the U.S. Attorney was probably factually correct.

[L98Fiero]

“That said I agree that new Law does not have to be invented. There are plenty of other hunting licenses available to the prosecutors as it is.”

Name one. Being fraudulent and the legal definition of “fraud” are two different things. Any lie is fraudulent. Few lies can can be prosecuted.

[dan1123]

She didn’t push anyone over any edge and there was no internet bullying. There are laws on the books for both those offenses. The fact that she really did nothing illegal is why these prosecutors are pushing this crap. Oh, it was immoral as hell, but it was no felony.

I'm sure if she was declared to have not broken any law and let off scott-free, the angry mob would do worse to her than a 5 year jail sentence.

[L98Fiero]

“I’m sure if she was declared to have not broken any law and let off scott-free, the angry mob would do worse to her than a 5 year jail sentence.”

Heh, that’s probably true.

[RobRoy]

>>Except that the U.S. Attorney was probably factually correct.<<

Yeah, which means I am NOT paranoid! ;)

[TigersEye]

LOL I graduated in ‘73 BTW. Coincidence? I don’t know. (just a little food for paranoid thought)

[Lost Dutchman]

“If you sat quietly in a room you just might make it through an entire day without breaking a law. And even then you are probably loitering.” Sam Vimes (CMDR AMCW)

[Still Thinking]

The question isn't "Am I paranoid?". It's "Am I paranoid enough?"