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It seems like an ‘Army of Davids’ may have tracked down the person who ‘hacked’ into Sarah Palin’s email (he guessed her password security questions / answers). Michelle Malkin has been all over the story and Skirts, Not Pantsuits suggests that the ‘hacker’ may be the adult son of a Tennessee State Representative - Democrat.
I wonder how long it will take the FBI to catch up… Or at least tell us about it…
UPDATE: Wired reports on the story, says they’ve talked to the TN State Rep on the phone, who ”said he could not talk about the matter and would have no comment”.
UPDATE: The Tennessean reports:
State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin’s hacked e-mail accounts.
UPDATE: Terry Frank has posted screenshots of David Kernell’s Facebook, where Kernell describes his ‘Political Views’ as “Obamacrat”. Kernell is a ‘Member of’ groups like: “UT for Barack Obama”, “Support the Jena 6″, “Free the Jena Six”, and “The Fastest Way to a Girl’s Heart is Through Her Gay Best Friend” (OK, that one’s funny).
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Alabama’s leftists are, of course, justifying the criminal activity.
My response to their argument that the intrusion was a “whistleblower” action:
If the government illegally searched an individual and found evidence of a crime you guys would be screaming that his/her civil liberties were violated and that the tainted evidence should be purged. You would turn a complete blind eye to the underlying crime. This situation is nearly identical except it involved private citizens illegally obtaining what could be construed as evidence of wrongdoing. Now you’re dismissing the illegal search and focusing on the alleged underlying crime! The hypocrisy is thick ’round here.
There is a compelling reason why you should strongly denounce invasions of privacy like this (just as you rightfully should denounce illegal searches by the government). They are at best needle in the haystack searches. An illegal government search is one that is basically undertaken without probable cause. You may find what you suspected, but that is not the point. We live in a society with protections for private citizens. They protect us not only from the government, but also our fellow citizens. Furthermore, this amounts to some type of vigilante justice with private citizens engaging in activities that should be the exclusive purview of lawful authorities. I thought that was frowned upon.
The ends justify the means: “If the End is properly understood and is true, then there can be no contradiction between Means and End.”
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/mean07.htm#09
Or to put it another way, Palin was asking for it.
Brian and react I grew up in west tennessee and the stories of prominent Memphis dems breaking the law and doing other questionable acts just never ends. Most of those dems arrested 3 years ago in that FBI bribery sting were from there. A few weeks ago another State Rep from Memphis was arrested for no license and insurance. Then last Saturday, the Senate Minority Leader Jim Kyle (who is from Memphis) and Al Gore’s friends stole an election from State Senator Rosalind Kurita simply because they were mad at her for voting for GOP Lt Gov Ramsey over the 88 year old John Wilder for Senate Speaker(Wilder had been Speaker since 1970). Kurita defeated her democrat opponent last month by 19 votes but the democrats last Saturday at their convention over turned that by claiming GOPers voted in their primary. Oh and dont forget the hilarious irony in all this. You have a Tennessee democrat pol’s son going after a woman one week after Al Gore’s friends stole an election from another woman. Oh and to top it off.. guess what area Kurita represents in the senate. She represents Fort Campbell. the largest military base in this region.
dan t - I kept checking your blog to see if you were going to comment on Kernell. One of the sites you blogroll ‘leftwingcracker’ showed up early in some of the searches for the hacker - I don’t think that led anywhere…
Thanks.