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(JSOnline)   When three GOP staffers jam some phone lines on Election Day, it's election tampering. When four Democrats slash $2,500 worth of tires to keep Republicans from voting, it's "a silly prank"   (jsonline.com) divider line
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2wolves [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 4:03:54 PM  
Jail time for "a silly prank?" How much time will the RNC members serve?
 
Lionel Mandrake
2007-03-14 4:07:21 PM  
Good Lord, I do hope smitty is just being silly...
 
Mordant
2007-03-14 4:07:42 PM  
I recall hoping they would get jail time, as did most people. Take your self pity and shove it, you lying little jackass.
 
The Homer Tax
2007-03-14 4:08:06 PM  
Did you read a different article than I did?

Calling the vandalism more than harmless hijinks, Brennan admonished the men, including the sons of two prominent Milwaukee politicians, for disenfranchising voters. The judge said he had received letters from county residents upset over the crime.

I gotta be honest, you partisan crybabies will look for anything to feel wronged over, won't you?
 
Cordwainer Deathbird
2007-03-14 4:08:14 PM  
Submitter, sounds to me like they got what they deserved. Why don't you stop sucking your mama's tit for a minute and actually read the articles you're submitting?

Dumbass.
 
damageddude [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 4:08:21 PM  
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael B. Brennan sentenced four Democratic Party workers to jail Wednesday for slashing tires on 25 vans rented by Republicans to take voters to polls for the 2004 presidential election.

Calling the vandalism more than harmless hijinks

Smitty fails at reading comprehension.
 
drnugget
2007-03-14 4:09:30 PM  
So, about 6 or 7 cars is equivalent to hundreds to thousands of calls? Sounds about right.

/drtfa
 
The_Flatline
2007-03-14 4:10:20 PM  
2wolves: Jail time for "a silly prank?" How much time will the RNC members serve?

I think one guy is serving one year.

And that guy was in significant contact with the white house before the phone call thing ramped up. The white house has declined to comment on what was discussed during those phone calls.

If it was really that important, the RNC could have bought new tires and dealt with the fallout afterwards, and had only been down for a few hours. It takes significantly longer to add telephone lines to a phone bank. Longer than a few hours.

All in all, the two are in different levels of damage. They're still both felonies though, and there's still jail time involved, and the judge said it still goes beyond "a silly prank".

STFU submitter.
 
quadropheniac
2007-03-14 4:11:34 PM  
Whoa, greenlight? But we've already slammed submitter!

/readies fire suit
 
Occams_Electric_Razor
2007-03-14 4:11:44 PM  
You lost. Get over it.
 
jimmyhaha
2007-03-14 4:13:33 PM  
When one submitter fails to read an article thoroughly before crapping his granny panties over then vomiting it onto the queue, that's called "Another Go-Tard Friendly Day on Fark".
 
Poolio
2007-03-14 4:14:05 PM  
The_Flatline - the RNC could have bought new tires and dealt with the fallout afterwards, and had only been down for a few hours.

maybe they couldn't afford new tires after spending upwards of $2 million to defend the phone-jammers.
 
clifton
2007-03-14 4:14:36 PM  
They're getting jail time. What more do you want?
 
Maxwell_Demon
2007-03-14 4:16:07 PM  
Holy fark I'm sick of the right wing trolling today.
 
Cordwainer Deathbird
2007-03-14 4:17:03 PM  
clifton: What more do you want?

Steak and a beej, but I'll look elsewhere for that.
 
Skleenar
2007-03-14 4:18:19 PM  
The_Flatline: And that guy was in significant contact with the white house before the phone call thing ramped up. The white house has declined to comment on what was discussed during those phone calls.

And he had his legal bills paid for by the RNC, even after conviction, and his prosecution was slow-walked by the NH prosecutor--one who wasn't fired in the recent purge.

Isn't it nice how all of the Bush scandals roll into a single swirling vortex of suck?
 
quadropheniac
2007-03-14 4:18:38 PM  
Personally, I would have liked to see the bastards tried for treason. Not sentenced to the death penalty, something preferably lighter, but tried for treason. Same goes for the phone jammers, and the jackasses who tampered with the vote in Ohio. I can't think of anything that aids or gives comfort more to our enemies, whoever they may be, then tampering with our liberty. No party politics here.
 
whidbey
2007-03-14 4:18:43 PM  
No, but that's a good idea!

Maybe the Repubs'll just slash millions of tires in 2008 instead of silly voter tampering that could get them a slap on the wrist. Much easier.
 
BritneysSpeculum
2007-03-14 4:23:41 PM  
It was their farking attorney who called it "hijinks." What would you expect him to say. The attorneys for the NH defendants said that the government was trying to criminalize politics.


submitter is a farking asswipe.
 
Calmamity
2007-03-14 4:24:11 PM  
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Craptastic
2007-03-14 4:26:17 PM  
Cordwainer Deathbird:

Your username reminds me of two of my favorite authors.

/just sayin'

quadropheniac: I would have liked to see the bastards tried for treason.

I think the word "treason" gets thrown around a little too cavalierly lately.
 
Calmamity
2007-03-14 4:36:42 PM  
Craptastic: I think the word "treason" gets thrown around a little too cavalierly lately.


Yeah, and it doesn't get thrown hard enough at the right people.
 
Code_Archeologist
2007-03-14 4:37:01 PM  
Here is the difference subby

Slashing tires (aka vandalism) is a misdemeanor.

Jamming phones across state lines is felony interstate telephone harassment, covered under Title 47 of the U.S. Code
 
Cordwainer Deathbird
2007-03-14 4:39:14 PM  
Craptastic: Your username reminds me of two of my favorite authors.

It was inspired by one of mine, but I 'm a Cordwainer Smith/Paul Linebarger fan as well. :)
 
orrinbloquy
2007-03-14 4:39:39 PM  
Code_Archeologist: Here is the difference subby

I think he's gone on to suck his thumb and rock back and forth from the assraping he's already gotten.

But thanks for the legal distinction; it'll be requoted as necessary.
 
RocketRod
2007-03-14 4:42:31 PM  
So, is this ANOTHER vast conspiracy..?

I need a game program to keep up with this.
 
This Is Bold Text [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 4:46:01 PM  
I think that tampering with elections should be considered treason.
 
quadropheniac
2007-03-14 4:47:09 PM  
Craptastic: I think the word "treason" gets thrown around a little too cavalierly lately.

Perhaps. But election fraud is a high crime.
 
BobtheFascist
2007-03-14 4:48:10 PM  
Good. I don't care who you're working for or who you're related to. You fark with people voting, you go to jail.

Am I the only person surprised to see these dopes were over 26? I'd expect this from an idealogic college freshman, not grown men in their mid 30's.
 
BobtheFascist
2007-03-14 4:50:43 PM  
Slashing tires (aka vandalism) is a misdemeanor.

FTFA: Because repairs and towing for the damaged vans had exceeded $2,500, the defendants were charged with felony property damage.
 
mathmatix
2007-03-14 4:50:56 PM  
2007-03-14 04:09:30 PM drnugget [TotalFark]

So, about 6 or 7 cars is equivalent to hundreds to thousands of calls? Sounds about right.

/drtfa


one has nothing to do with the other...

a crime is a crime, regardless of whether a democrat or republic party was responsible for the actions...
 
tomasso
2007-03-14 4:53:08 PM  
You guys all need to read the article.

The fact of the matter is that this was a miscarriage of justice. These guys were tried for a property crime, but punished for an election crime.

A bohunk county circuit judge should not be punishing them for any crime other than the one before his court. They were found guilty of felony vandalism, not election tampering. Given their age, their repentance, and the fact that they made restitution for the damage, I believe they should have received a fine and a suspended sentence on this particular crime.

HOWEVER

If you argue that they should now be prosecuted for attempting to illegally influence a federal election (a crime which could make them very old men when they leave federal prison), perhaps you have a point. If they are convicted of that, I would support throwing the book at them and anyone else who does it, irrespective of their political leanings.

But that was not the matter before this court.
 
flaEsq
2007-03-14 4:53:39 PM  
I can usually tell how bad things are for the publicans by how much literland resembles freep. Damned if today's selections haven't reached Stormfront quality, but the day is still young.
 
Capt_Evil
2007-03-14 4:56:18 PM  
flaEsq

You visit literland political threads? That's just crazy talk!
 
Skleenar
2007-03-14 4:58:14 PM  
mathmatix: a crime is a crime, regardless of whether a democrat or republic party was responsible for the actions...

B...b...but Tu Quoque!
 
jimmyhaha
2007-03-14 5:00:24 PM  
submitter, for once in your worthless, pointless, sexless existence, be a man about something and out yourself. I'd like to know who it is among us whose single achievement on the planet Earth is that he exhales carbon dioxide, which is useful for plants.
 
flaEsq
2007-03-14 5:05:58 PM  
Capt_Evil: You visit literland political threads? That's just crazy talk!

Sometimes, to strut around arrogantly in my spiffy T*F duds.
 
Skleenar
2007-03-14 5:06:47 PM  
jimmyhaha: submitter, for once in your worthless, pointless, sexless existence, be a man about something and out yourself. I'd like to know who it is among us whose single achievement on the planet Earth is that he exhales carbon dioxide, which is useful for plants.

You know, there is a chance that submitter actually wrote that headline with the intent of bringing in a lot of firepower on the anti-GOP side into this thread.

It may just have been a stealth lib troll who done it.
 
real shaman
2007-03-14 5:07:03 PM  
Does anyone here read the news?

Hilary's vast right wing conspiracy has returned. The jammed phone lines was proof of that.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 5:08:48 PM  
English, Submittard - do you read it?
 
jimmyhaha
2007-03-14 5:13:08 PM  
Skleenar: You know, there is a chance that submitter actually wrote that headline with the intent of bringing in a lot of firepower on the anti-GOP side into this thread.

It may just have been a stealth lib troll who done it.

Occam. It's not just a razor in Egypt.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-03-14 5:19:20 PM  
flaEsq: Sometimes, to strut around arrogantly in my spiffy T*F duds.

How'd you know he's a TotalFarker?
He doesn't have shiat all over him.
 
Three Crooked Squirrels [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 5:40:40 PM  
Trying to illegally influence an election is disgusting. And after RTFA, it seems that everyone understands that. The "prank" remark came from one of the guys' attorneys:

"What appears to have happened was a prank, a silly prank that went too far," said Rodney Cubbie, Pratt's attorney.

He's paid to say stuff like that. People that weren't paid to say stuff like that are disgusted by the actions. Subby would have you believe all Wisconsin Dems were crying foul about this "prank." But, Subby is a twit.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 6:22:09 PM  
drnugget: So, about 6 or 7 cars is equivalent to hundreds to thousands of calls? Sounds about right.

Not to defend anyone involved on either side, but the phone-jamming thing did not actually prevent anyone from getting to the polls, whereas the tire slashing did.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-03-14 6:23:55 PM  
Code_Archeologist: Slashing tires (aka vandalism) is a misdemeanor.

No, this was felony vandalism--damage exceeded $2,500.
 
Craptastic
2007-03-14 6:39:01 PM  
quadropheniac: Perhaps. But election fraud is a high crime.

A serious crime worthy of PMITA jail time, certainly. But "treason"?...umm...Not necessarily.

Then again, according to some folks, reporting the news is "treason", whether it be Sy Hersh or Bob Novak. I just think that people should be aware of the constitutional definition of that term before they tossing it around as a means to discredit their opponents.
 
Craptastic
2007-03-14 6:41:35 PM  
MyNameIsNotMervGriffin: Code_Archeologist: Slashing tires (aka vandalism) is a misdemeanor.

No, this was felony vandalism--damage exceeded $2,500.

If this vandalism was done as a means to effect the results of an election, I don't think the dollar amount of the damage really matters.
 
jaedreth
2007-03-14 6:54:26 PM  
Then what do you call it when both Dems and Reps use their political power and money to ensure no independent or other party can win any serious election?
 
robsul82
2007-03-14 6:54:48 PM  
It's not News(max), it's Fark.com.
 
inkdrinker
2007-03-14 6:55:09 PM  
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