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Palin Hacker Defense: She's Not Entitled to Privacy
A surprise legal maneuver by the defense in the Sarah Palin hacking case could undermine key charges carrying the stiffest potential penalties. A lawyer for the Tennessee college student charged with hacking into the Alaska governor’s Yahoo e-mail account last year says his client couldn’t have violated Palin’s privacy because a judge had already declared her e-mails a matter of public record.
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Terry - Pa
They should shove this geeks computer up his ass...!!
Send him to Prison
Send him to prison now before he takes his fathers job as a Democrat Politician. This kid is just a punk !!!
The country can't even get Obama College transcripts let a lone e-mails.
DOUBLE STANDARD !!!!
Roxanne
Thank you Jean..I am so sick of the double standard. What do you think would happen to this hacker if he had hacked into queen pelosi's e-mail account? Can you say... prison!!
Callmecrazy
Yes, and Obama’s. face it if your going to hack why not find out what Pelosi knew and when she knew it? Oh I forgot he is a liberal kid who pays hardly any taxes and seeks to destroy the dissenting party not realizing that all power needs to be kept in check.
Jean
As we have learned from the pass election. Sarah Palin is not entitled to the same rights as everyone else in this country. Ask the lying liberal MSM they can contest to this. The lies and rumors that were told about this good honest woman and nobody did anything to stop the liberal MSM.
Wake up!
Ruger
SPECTEMUR AGENDO: LET US BE JUDGED BY OUR ACTIONS: Barack Hussein Obama's court appointed judges will make rulings with empathy,not by rule of law. VOTE FOR SARAH PALIN
cjcsec
Empathy means shrared emotional and or physical experience for the one who is applying it. Show me the judge.
Ruger
Lady liberty has a blindfold over her eyes to judge by rule of law to not show favor on any court decision.
Ruger
SPECTEMUR AGENDO: LET US BE JUDGED FOR OUR ACTIONS VOTE FOR SARAH PALIN
gms
Cool. Let's all get our conservative outrage together and beat up on a kid.
cjcsec
Conservative outrage is pointed at elected adults who should know better, not children.
Ken
It's apparent the kid's parents need a good beating as well for not being responsible parents.
TC
Maybe that's exactly what his parents should have done. Obviously they didn't teach him respect for other people's rights or privacy. Wonder what he would think if his parents searched his room, computer, etc. Probably scream bloody murder.
Derek
Being required to keep your e-mails as part of a court case, releasing them to the public, and finally determination of which e-mails are personal and which ones are not is a decision for the court to make. Not some college kid from Tennessee. The right to privacy does extend into the internet and i think he should not only go to jail but from on forward everything he transmits electronically, via e-mail, facebook, twitter or even text message should be posted for everyone to read. Maybe then someone else will learn from his example and keep their noses out of other peoples business. Of course the other corallory ( i know it's misspelled) is that if you do something like this keep your mouth shut and not post them on the internet. Obviously if he could hack into Palin's account then somebody could hack into his.
melinlc
This young punk has found his 15 seconds of fame, BUT and hopefully, the court will give him 15 months of fame with some Bubba who will appreciate his girly looks. This scare -in-life will give him an appreciation for the realities and respect for others that he seems to lack as a result of his less than proper upbringing.
elf
If Palins emails are public then so are Obamas...so if someone hacked his private emails this is not a crime....ppublic. So go for it. We will send your mail to the nearest Federal Prison.
bc
Elf-it would be a crime to hack Obama's email because he is a liberal, it's only okay when it is done to a Republican.
American vet
you are smart mouth kid that trying to be in an adult world, someone should slap you back in your place.
Anne
What a stupid little twit----same goes for his lawyer. They both should be put out at the curb come garbage day.
PBALABAMA
These poor old judges are just so technologically challenged. They have already ruled as late as 1997, that e-mail belongs to the provider or the none who owns the server. Personal e-mail by a Governor or any public person does not automatically make it a matter of public record. If so, all communication, including telephone conversations telling her husband to bring home some bread would be public record, too. Better think that one over, Your Honor.
damose
After this jerk is convicted, I hope he get a cell with bubba. He is sure to be someone's B**ch.
Pharos
Yes Bubba will just "Love" him. Most likely Bubba will also Pimp him out to all the other imates, for Twix Bars, and Sugar Daddy's. He'll get a fast Education in how to Prance, and Swing his Hips. A year frorm now Fox can do a Story on how he has adapted to Prison Life. Maybe he'll have a different idea about Privacy then ? Stupid,stupid,stupid !
Toomuchspin
This kid typifies the cowardice and hypocrisy of the left. He thinks he's a genius but he's actually an idiot. I hope he buys some soap on a rope.
Bruce
He's just a product of a messed up education system where lib's think if you don't think like us you are not human.
cjcsec
Bruce, ya hit it right on the noggin! The veracity of the liberal left teaches our children, while we work, that everything we do is wrong. They come home deculturalized, demoralized and confused. What we have to do is take our children to multi cultural events where they can see the best of people, and sort out the difference of behavioral characteristics promoted by anarchical subcultures ruling the young at school, and the love and experience of those who care about them in love!
Sweetie
That is one screwed up kid. Isn't his father a politician? The article didn't mention it, but I think I remember reading that fact in another news piece.
scottie1
This is one snotty BRAT who deserves to go to JAIL. We need to hold him accountable for his actions!!!!
mzlilydale
This little punk is like most kids these days, no respect, no conscience, and all for me, me, me. Another reason why, when you spare the rod, you spoil the child. My parents would have not only spanked (not beaten,) me but, I would have been grounded for 6 months and learned a very hard lesson. Repect for others and you reap, what you sow.
KATHY
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU. THIS COUNTRY NEEDS MORE PARENTS LIKE YOUR PARENTS.
mark b
I hope this rich little pr**k gets no privacy in prison. This kid represents how a portion of the upcoming generation thinks. Good luck America.
CC
This little snot needs to spend some time in jail and his father should be voted out in the next election. HELLO TENNESSEE!!
NavyBrat
I'm ashamed that this little tool is from my home state AND my hometown of Germantown, right outside Memphis. If he doesn't think she's entitled to privacy, then maybe he's not entitled to due process. Or, better yet, when they throw him in the state pen in Jackson or Memphis, he "won't be entitled to privacy" when his new roomates, Bubba & Tyrone, pay him a visit in the shower. Little snot nosed turd.
JAC
I thank privacy is just that PRIVACY and that is why we all use log -on codes and pass-words to keep our business our business . If we give our e-mail address out to our friends and other business we expect that they will honor our privacy . Any one who HACK into our accounts are violating our rights of privacy .I don't care who you are if you violate someone privacy you have broken the LAW . If not on a legal issue it is most certainly on a moral issue. I'm sure if someone broke into his personal information he would feel like he had been raped just like the rest of us would feel ,so why should it be any different for Gov. Palin. I would hope the young man would at least have the guts to apologize publicly to Gov. Palin and be a man and except what ever punishment the law dishes out and stop having daddy fight his battles and get him off the hook .
Bridgett
Good Lord, who does this snot nosed kid think he is??? We can't even see B. HUSSEIN Obama's birth certificate, or school records and he is the pres. Sarah Palin was only running for VP and she was vetted by the FBI , yet we do not know who vetted B. HUSSEIN Obama.
U.S.Patriot
HE BROKE THE LAW! There is no defense and he should go to jail for it. If that was me or you our butts would be thrown in jail so fast our heads would spin. But, because his dad is a politician, he has special privledges.
savarulz
Well if her email acct is public property, then this kid because of who his dad is, his life is VERY PUBLIC too. I want to know what's in his emails and what he looks at on the web. same argument different party affiliations. Almost as clear as night and day.
pugmaster
Since the day she came on the national scene, the political left, "moderates," including the press, have attacked Sarah Palin on a personal level. They are so afraid of this woman, that it borders on the psychotic. The violation of her private e-mails is further evidence of this view. This young man should be punished for violating Palin's fourth amendment protections. All Americans have the right to be secure in their "houses, papers and effects" and that includes Sarah Palin.
Sharon
I guess being the son of a democratic politican doesn't hurt either. This little puke should go to jail
suz7966
LIBERAL Bias, You BETCHA!!!!!!!!!!
Will future briefings of CIA with Pelsoi, JEOPARDIZE National SECURITY?
CHENEY ROCKS........Obama's world!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama is hell bent on a mission, without a cause?
Cheney is the HEART, Rush is the VOICE and Powell is LOST SOUL.
BRAVO Mr. Steel, a leader emerged.
Ignite the mission, "Belief of the American Dream", CONSERVATISM!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-yKRjewW98&feature=player_embedded
Tired of the same old politics?
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
jackphat
If he hacked into my Yahoo account it would be a crime but since it was Palin's it's not????? Fire that Democratic judge.
Ken
Well if Palin's account is open then EVERYONES email account should be open ... the judges first...and along with Obama's and everyone else's. This judge is throwing privacy out the window. Maybe the kid needs to hack into his account and see how he likes that.
Beth M.
If it had been Nancy the PORK PIG Pelosi, he would already be serving his sentence.
Ken
You mean Porky Pig ohh i'm sorry ... did i say that...shame on me I mean BOTOX Porky PIG Nancy would be throwing fits and making demands and swearing up an down she didnt write that email or that she wasn't informed she'd written it...it'd be a CIA trick!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jon
Oh yah, and probably at "Gitmo" too! no, wait maybe in Murtha's or Spectors neighborhood!!!!
Citrus
And your not entitled to fingers.
Georgia Cricket
Could someone please release the Judge's adress so we could go picket in front of his house for this stupid ruling?
Ken
that'd mean we'd have to HACK into Yahoo to get his address and that just wouldnt meet with his approval
Sammy
I am so happy this is not my child. What horrors raise this brat? Charge him with breaking and entering into then.
Phil
He is the son of a democratic legislator. Go figure! Perfect example of how not to raise your son or daughter.
DividedNation
Make the little puke a cellmate of the biggest, baddest, life-sentence incarcerated offender with no hope of normal relations with the other gender. Let's see how much he values HIS "privacy" when faced with that.