Monthly Archives: April 2010

Palin Hacker Found Guilty

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From WBIR:

A federal jury has found former UT student David Kernell guilty of obstruction of justice and unauthorized access in the breach of Sarah Palin‘s e-mail.

The obstruction of justice conviction makes Kernell a felon.

The case is a mistrial on count one, the charge of identity theft.

The jury found Kernell not guilty on count 2, the charge of wire fraud.

Unauthorized access is a misdemeanor lesser included charge from count three, which accused Kernell of felony unlawful computer access.

The jury found Kernell guilty of obstruction of justice. That carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, with a fine up to $250,000.

My previous piece on this at Big J.

Sad: Shakira Says AZ Law Will Cause “Detention in the Streets”

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“I think that being detained in the street just because of the color of your skin is just wrong, and it’s a violation of human and civil rights.”

I think that’s wrong as well. Fortunately, that’s not what this law does.

(Has Shakira or anyone making such an argument even read the bill? It’s 16 pages. People can read Twilight or Harry Potter but don’t have time to read a 16 page bill?)

Police just can’t detain people in the streets.” If you run a stoplight, get pulled over, and don’t have identification which proves that you’re here legally, then you can be arrested. I’ve discussed this before on my show, back when a hotelier in Farmington, Missouri, ran afoul of the law for employing illegal immigrants, several with a long rap sheet, and how the local police were overruled by the feds when they tried to detain the ones with warrants. Arizona’s law rightfully enacts their 10th Amendment rights to protect their citizens.

I’m not going to get too flummoxed over a non-citizen of this country egregiously misinterpreting our laws and reacting to her misinterpretation of the law and creating an unnecessary controversy for our citizens as a result.

I agree with what a then-Senator Barack Obama said in August 2006 on immigration:

Click image for video. Remarks around :40 mark.

Democrats Show Double Standards with National ID Proposal

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Good grief:

A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.

Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure.

But somehow someone being stopped for a separate suspicion and being unable to produce citizenship documentation after is outrageous. With all due respect, durr?

(Read the law here. Come on. You can read a Twilight or Harry Potter book but you can’t read a 16-page law?)

Mark it down in the history books, I agree with the ACLU on this:

The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties defender often aligned with the Democratic Party, wasted no time in blasting the plan.

“Creating a biometric national ID will not only be astronomically expensive, it will usher government into the very center of our lives. Every worker in America will need a government permission slip in order to work. And all of this will come with a new federal bureaucracy — one that combines the worst elements of the DMV and the TSA,” said Christopher Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel.

“America’s broken immigration system needs real, workable reform, but it cannot come at the expense of privacy and individual freedoms,” Calabrese added.

Sorry ACLU, that’s the reason they want to do it: to create a new federal bureaucracy.

We have drivers licenses and social security cards, we don’t need this ridiculousness. The problem with much of the current law isn’t that it doesn’t address enough, it’s that modern society fails to interpret it properly.

The beauty of this oxymoronic stance, pro national ID card and against AZ law, is supreme.