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Thursday, January 28, 2010

that's water under the gate

the cast of bottle rocket four men arrested for phone tampering in sen. landrieu's offices, including acorn-foe james o'keefe, are not suspected of phone tapping.

but as commentor andrew a. gill, sls, over @ sadly, no! points out, they could still be in some pretty damn hot water:
as i mentioned yesterday, the language here seems to be tailored to get these geniuses on terrorism charges.

the affadavit:
on january 25, 2010, individuals entered and attempted to gain entrance to the office and telephone system of united states senator mary landrieu, located in the hale boggs federal building, room 1005, 500 poydras street, new orleans, louisiana 70130 for the purpose of interfering with the office’s telephone system. the individuals did so by falsely and fraudulently representing that the [sic] were employees of a telephone company.
18 u.s.c. 1036:
(a) whoever, by any fraud or false pretense, enters or attempts to enter – (1) any real property belonging in whole or in part to, or leased by, the united states; [...] shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) the punishment for an offense under subsection (a) of this section is – (1) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, if the offense is committed with the intent to commit a felony; or (2) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both, in any other case.
18 u.s.c. 1362:

whoever willfully or maliciously injures or destroys any of the works, property, or material of any radio, telegraph, telephone or cable, line, station, or system, or other means of communication, operated or controlled by the united states, or used or intended to be used for military or civil defense functions of the united states, whether constructed or in process of construction, or willfully or maliciously interferes in any way with the working or use of any such line, or system, or willfully or maliciously obstructs, hinders, or delays the transmission of any communication over any such line, or system, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
and, as mentioned before, 18 u.s.c. sec. 2332b says that this such action is a “federal crime of terrorism.”
andrew "too old to write for 24" breitbart, the man who insists that paying a guy for work is not the same as employing him, took on david schuster today on msnbc, trying to set the record latent straight. however, he only succeeded in making himself look deranged:

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(thx & a tip o' the kangaroo tail to bradblog for the video!)

breitbart is furious w/schuster for tweeting insulting stuff about the cast of bottle rocket o'keefe & his co-horts. msnbc is on record saying the tweets were "inappropriate," tho we wonder why, in light of the lack of any cries of inappropriateness toward acorn getting punk'd by o'keefe, as opposed to actual journalism.

speaking of not actual jounalism, media matters finds that faux news devoted less than 1/13 of the time to o'keefe's arrest than they did to the original acorn punk'd videos. while a lot of the hardly-ever-right wing is running away from o'keefe, the rest of them are downplaying his federal arrest for a federal felony committed on federal property against a the federal offices of sitting senator.

whatever punishment awaits this merry prankster in the future (please, no prison rape jokes, we're progressive), the most devastating sentence for a virile right-winger has already happened: the judge has ordered him to live with his parents.

"james, you can't got out and film yourself tricking poor people tonight, you've got to do the dishes! and take off that ridiculous pimp costume! "

"awww, mo-oom!"

(once again, thx & a tip o' the kangaroo tail to memeorandum for some of the links!)

update: in further o'keefe news, an exhibit of o'keefe's work is coming to the national cowgirl museum and hall of fame in santa fe.
posted by skippy at 5:50 PM |

4 Comments:

"awww, mo-oom!"

Priceless!
commented by Blogger Phil, 6:55 PM PST  
At first, I thought the judge was meting out cruel and unusual punishment to the parents. But they're the ones who raised that little snot, so I guess there is some justice in this world...
commented by Blogger Jim Yeager, 9:56 PM PST  
Being paranoid, myself, I'd worry that the charges were changed from wiretapping to "terrorism" because it'll be easier for them to get off. Idiots they may be, right-wing-nozzles fo' sho', but terrorists? What jury would convict them of that? It wont happen, and they'll walk.
What are the political connections in the offices of whoever changed the charges? One may not be able to ignore a crime; an aquittal is easier to engineer.
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