September 17th 2008
“Privacy Hawk” Leftists Raid Palin Emails
Let me see if I remember this right …
The dummies sitting on the lap of the big Left ventriloquists like Kos and Huff and MoveOn can’t stop whining about how the Patriot Act tramples on rights and threatens the Constitution … even though they’re free to whine, and even though they know no one who has had any rights trampled upon. Is that about right?
Then imagine my shock (SHOCK!) upon reading this, from Libertarian Republican:
Leftwing on-line activists from 4Chan have hacked into Sarah Palin’s private email account, and are now making the contents available all over the internet. According to Peter Rost Blog:
At around midnight last night the group gained access to governor Palin’s email account “sarah.gov@yahoo.com” and handed over the contents to the government sunshine site Wikileaks.org.
Tech Voice is reporting that one of the hackers got Palin’s password:
somebody was able to compromise “gov.palin@yahoo.com,” by apparently discovering the password to the account. The password was posted to a public forum - and a field day ensued. …
The Ultra-Liberal Blog Huffington Post has just run a story, and have even posted Screenshots of Sarah Palin’s private emails. [I just checked the site and found nothing]…
Michelle Malkin is reporting on her blog that:
They have used Bristol Palin’s illegally obtained private cell phone number from her mom’s private account, recorded her voicemail message, and posted it on their website.
They have reprinted her husband Todd’s private e-mail address and son Track’s private e-mail address.
Here’s the AP story on it. And here’s Time, which starts, “I am advised this is not a hoax.” Not a hoax, but certainly an abomination that underscores the hypocricy and hatred of the American Left … and which will drive even more voters to McCain/Palin.
hat-tip: Jim
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September 17th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Except, the hackers weren’t “leftist”, they were just hackers who have never identified their politics… if they could break into Obama’s account, they’d do that too…
September 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
The gleefulness was all from the Left, and sorry, Bub, but hackers pretty much aren’t Republicans. We’re a law and order bunch. Denial is the first thing you need to get over on your road to recovery.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
amen…the leftards are going full steam ahead…theyre running scared..great post!:)
September 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-been-overcast-past-couple-of-days.html
September 17th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Do you know why people like me keep very quiet when such things happen, Laer?
It’s cause the solutions I have believe have nothing whatsoever to do with argument and debates.
The Left thinks they know what cracking down means. They think they know what it means to use Republican tactics against people.
They don’t know a thing about real violence and hate.
They were only ever tools made to be used and discarded. Now they believe they can master their own fate and even have tools of their own.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
They have no principles, Laer. Stop even pretending that they do.
What they have is a goal and anyone standing in their way will be destroyed. But that’s what warfare is for. When social contracts and solutions break down, we break out what actually works to resolve things.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Laer:
I’ve known an awful lot of Republican hackers & anarchists in my time. They’re not mainstream, but they hate Dems, and they would gladly do the same.
I think countxero is right- these are anarchist trolls. I know these people, and they don’t care about politics, they only care about chaos- they’d just as gladly do this to Obama or Biden- Palin was just much, much more vulnerable given her previous low-profile.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Hackers - except for those who hack to steal - are anarchists. Anarchists have more in common with the left-leaning Dems than the GOP, even if they aren’t in the party. And again, the glee of the Left in sharing this stolen privacy is disgustingly hypocritical given all their angst over privacy.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:47 am
“Anarchists have more in common with the left-leaning Dems than the GOP, even if they aren’t in the party.”
They have more in common with a bunch of statists than a bunch of libertarians? As a libertarian-Republican, I think I have much more in common with anarchists than with socialists.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Doesn’t sound to me as if the hacker was apolitical. From the hacker’s mouth, as quoted by Michelle Malkin
(bold mine)
“Hello, /b/ as many of you might already know, last night sarah palin’s yahoo was “hacked” and caps were posted on /b/, i am the lurker who did it, and i would like to tell the story.[...]I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family[...]Earlier it was just some prank to me, I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be….”
September 18th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Thanks, Zee. As far as I was concerned, the argument was settled - but proof is a nice thing.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Just because he wanted to derail her campaign doesn’t mean he’s a Democrat. If I was an anarchist, I’d be hoping Obama gets elected- not because I want Obama to be my president, but because I’d like to see the destabilizing effect that his assassination will have on the country.
That is, if I was an anarchist, which I’m not. But I understand their mindset. They’re not big on statists.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
This is like saying, the US Marine Corps commits atrocities just like Al Qaeda does.
Let’s forget about the fact that one does it as policy and the other avoids it and punishes the offenders. It’s avoid the fact that the Marine Corps have a 0 score for atrocities while AQ has them in the three or four digit range.
Let’s forget all that and recognize that <I>both sides are equally capable of doing such things</i>.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
The Russians would have called that demoralization. Where people’s first instinct is not to defend the innocent and the just against the unjust and the cruel. No, people’s first instincts becomes spread the blame around or blame ourselves or something like that.
It doesn’t even matter what the hacker’s political affiliations are. If terrorists blow up a building and Democrats profit from it by direct action and support, it doesn’t matter who the terrorists thought they were benefiting or not.
The consequences are irrespective of intent and the consequences of the Democrat’s own actions on Sarah Palin are independent of the intentions of any hacker.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Ymar:
Yes, but if the consequences only build sympathy for Palin… then it was to the net benefit of the Republicans, right?
So how do we know these hackers weren’t trying to benefit the GOP?