Posted on 10/08/2008 7:09:34 AM PDT by GVnana
Posted: 8:24 AM Oct 8, 2008 Last Updated: 8:51 AM Oct 8, 2008 Reporter: Brian Gregory
KNOXVILLE, Tenn (WVLT) -- A University of Tennessee student is due in federal court this morning to answer charges in connection with the hacking of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail.
David C. Kernell, 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 7th, but the indictment was not unsealed until this morning.
Federal prosecutors allege Kernell intentionally accessed without authorization Palin's e-mail account.
Kernell, the son of Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell (D-Memphis), turned himself into federal authorities for arrest.
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He’ll get a sweetheart plea bargain and community service.
Just you watch and see.
Had this been a son of a Republican, the title would have read “ SON of REPUBLICAN ..... has been ARRESTED”!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Chump.
He’s a Democrat. So’s his dad. Since the law doesn’t apply to Democrats, we can expect that this will be dropped or the jury will find him not guilty.
Ahhhh, the sound of DU heads exploding in the morning!
“”””Kernell, the son of Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell (D-Memphis), turned himself into federal authorities for arrest.””””
This is the first I had read that Kernell was the son of a Democrat State Representative.
He’ll be known in the cell blockas a bold fresh piece of humanity.
Oh yeah!
As if I needed another reason to hate UT.
He’ll be lauded as a hero and protected by the prison black Muslim brother-hood..as long as he swears to Allah!
tie this to the Obama campaign and Obama is toasty!
My Predictions!
- Money changes hands, no trial
- Charges dropped or pled down to no jail time/time served
- Wild conspiracy theories linking this kid to The One (piss be upon him)
Good!
In an ideal world, we’d treat this crime seriously and a violator would get a minimum of 10 years in the pen. Unfortunately, we live in a world that thinks everything done on the Internet is harmless, so he’ll probably get a slap on the wrist.
You got that right. Roll Tide!
Lawyers? Even though Palin is a public figure she can still sue in civil court could she not, and include UT in that case if this went through their servers proxie or not?
This is the way suburban Democrats raise their children:
1. Watch the kid like a hawk his entire childhood so he doesn’t get hurt.
2. Convince the kid that all Republicans and conservatives are evil racists.
3. Keep the kid away from evil guns.
4. Teach the kid to worship diversity.
5. Punish the kid when he gets caught doing something wrong.
6. Teach them to play safe sports like “soccer”.
When the kid grows up he puts it all together and realizes that he can do anything he wants to suppress the “evil” gun-loving, racist conservatives as long as he does not get hurt or caught.
In order to assure the security of such sites as Yahoo or Google or others this kid needs to do some serious jail time. Stealing a person's e-mail account (which was what was done here) should be treated no lighter than someone stealing your mail. People who steal mail invariably get 10 year sentences. It is the only way to discourage people from doing this. This is a high profile case. They have to throw the book at this kid.
Hmm... she can probably successfully sue the kid, and possibly the university for allowing access to proxy servers, but she probably has little chance of winning a suit against the administrator of the proxy servers.
Public figures are not limited from suing when they are victims of a crime (identity theft).
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