Crime

Virginia Supreme Court- Now Spam is Protected Speech

We have a few morons on the bench here in Virginia. Our Supreme Court Justices are trying to give rights to criminals that do not exist anywhere else in the country. In a stunning reversal of their own prior opinion, they have now ruled that anyone can send any type of spam they want to my computer, even if it contains malware, trojans and child pornography, because I am a Virginia resident and its the spammer’s constitutional right to free speech to do so.

From the WaPo here:

The Virginia Supreme Court today struck down a state anti-spam law, saying the statute violated the First Amendment right to free and anonymous speech. The decision also tossed out the conviction of a North Carolina man once described as one of the most prolific spammers.

The ruling, arising from the Loudoun County criminal prosecution of Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was also remarkable because the Supreme Court reversed itself: Just six months ago, the same court upheld the anti-spam law by a 4-3 margin. But Jaynes’s attorneys asked the court to reconsider, typically a long shot in appellate law, and the court not only reconsidered but changed its mind.

Jaynes was convicted in 2004 of sending tens of thousands of e-mails through America Online servers in Loudoun. He was the first person tried under the law, enacted in 2003, and Loudoun Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced him to nine years in prison.

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell said he intends to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia has erroneously ruled that one has a right to deceptively enter somebody else’s private property for purposes of distributing his unsolicited fraudulent emails. I respectfully but fervently disagree,” McDonnell said in a written statement. “We will take this issue directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. The right of citizens to be free from unwanted fraudulent emails is one that I believe must be made secure.”

It doesn’t matter what anyone wants to say in an email.  If you send it to a list of email addresses as spam, you are abusing computer access rights, which ought to be illegal.  Its illegal in most other states, but not Virginia.


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Reason 445 to HomeSchool: Teacher Won’t Show Torture Porn to Your Kids

Forrest Martin’s career as a teacher came to a screeching halt on Monday. During his photography class, he passed out assignments and then kicked his feet up on his desk, opened his laptop and drooled over videos of women being tortured and raped. But Oopsie! He forgot to disconnect the projector cable. His students were horrified at how creepy their teacher was. Forrest Martin quit his job before he could be fired.

From ABCNews here:

Phoenix police are investigating a Phoenix photography teacher, Forrest Martin, after some high school students reported that he played pornographic videos during class. According to a letter Arcadia High School sent home to parents, the incident happened Monday.  The letter reads, “13 students were inadvertently shown material inappropriate for the classroom by their teacher.”

The teenage students said they saw were six video clips of what one student described as “torture porn, of like girls being tied up.

The teacher had connected his personal computer to a projector screen for a photography lesson. That’s when students said the teacher began viewing the videos.

“He forgot the projector screen was turned on and he started watching porn and we were all just like sitting there shocked that he was watching this in front of the class.”

Students said they did try to signal the teacher but he never looked up from his computer. “He was just all into it, I don’t even think he was paying attention to us, he was just all in his computer. We were making comments like ‘Wow, what is he watching?’ and that kind of stuff but I think he was too into it to even notice.”

Most students said they weren’t offended as much as they were unnerved by the incident.

“I was just creeped out that a teacher that I have known from the beginning of the year could have been watching this the whole time we were in class. That’s just gross; he’ll watch it in front of kids in that school when he’s supposed to be teaching.”

Some students wondered how many times the teacher may have view pornography before without them knowing.


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Lanora Lucas is a Bad Mom

In 2005, Lanora Lucas, a former school bus driver, let her kids ride in the trunk of her car on a hot June day because she wanted her son’s friends to think she was a “Cool Mom.” She paid a fine and went on probation, but she didn’t learn her lesson. Now she is in trouble for furnishing Vodka for a 13-year-old girl’s birthday party.

From WTOP here:

A woman who let three small children ride in the trunk of her car in 2005 is in trouble with the law again.  Lanora A. Lucas, 40, of Thurmont was charged with reckless endangerment and furnishing alcohol to minors. She is accused of buying vodka for a 13-year-old girl’s birthday celebration.

A 13-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy became so drunk that they were admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital for alcohol poisoning.  The girl’s blood-alcohol content was 0.251; the boy’s was 0.185.

The girls asked Lucas to buy the liquor.  “A phone call was made. They met and gave her $20,” Koenig said. “She provided the vodka and brought them the change.”   While in the woods, and under the influence of the liquor, one of the girls had sexual contact with two of the boys.

I guess being the cool mom in the town must be a pain in the ass if you end up doing liquor deliveries to every teenage slut in the county.  But once you get busted, the 7-year prison sentence looks a little painful.


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