Domain: thesmokinggun.com
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Not TSG - I feel guilty for lookingO.K. I admit it. I had to look. I'm a big fan of The Smoking Gun and was hoping to find something similar. Instead, after peeking around, I have to face the obvious - this is a guy with an axe to grind. As such, I've decided against linking any of the specific pages back to my comment. Am I afraid of legal action? No. I would just feel, well, dirty. You want to see the pages firsthand? Go poking around it yourself. No one will stop you.
First, I'm not talking about SSNs and court records. I'll let a judge tackle those issues. I'm refering to the comentary the webmaster has added to the various pages, specifically the Kirkland PD (the only force I looked at in depth). Vicious stuff, although apparently just this side of actionable (or so the judgement would imply). I can see why Kirkland spent $200K spent trying to shut the site down (per the website). Free speech or not, it's an employer's duty to try to stand up for its people (just as its the judge's to protect the Constitution). Heck, I'd probably quit my job if my boss didn't take some action against a fullisade like this against his employees.
Three targets of note:
- Prosecutor Margita Dornay-Noe - Mostly links to stories and commentaries from Seattle newspapers about scandals around her. She appears to be facing disbarment and other stuff over (multiple?) sex scandals, but the big thing that creeps me out is the little piece of grafitti at the bottom of the page. It depicts (what appears to be) a nude woman's privates, a keyhole, and what look like prison bars in the background. Man, Freud would have a field day with that one.
- Phillip Goguen - No commentary, but some court filings, a map to the house, and a photo of his house (perhaps a real estate listing?). The photo also shows two vehicles and partial licence plates. Creepy.
- Gene M. Markle - The crown gem of the site. Not much in the public record. Just a bankruptcy (the webmaster appears suprised that can happen to someone making $60K/year - naive or just grasping at straws?). But then the webmaster puts up a map to the guy's house and starts on a rant: "He's as corrupt as any officer in the city of Kirkland. This [the website's] author will have no problem saying that Gene Markle is a filthy liar that just loves abusing others with his badge to serve his own purposes sociopathic purposes... I have suffered directly at the hands of this maggots [sic] criminal actions, which is certain he takes great pleasure for [sic]. The sad truth is that there is a woman (his wife Roberta) that will actually let him have sex with her and bare [sic] children. Just typing these words makes me want to spray my computer screen with Lysol. Clearly his wife is of questionable reputation."
I've gotta wonder about that last bit about his wife and kids with all the gramatical errors. If you read it fast, you can get the verbs messed up ("bare" or "bear"?) it seems to imply the officer is an incestous pedophile. Then again, I was expecting him to be hurling dirt from his tone, so I was primed for that sort of thing. Or perhaps it's my own filthy mind.
It just goes how little it takes to get the domain "justicefiles.org"
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Re:You mean
Also, note that this is identical to a review (third one down, by the same guy it seems) on amazon.
Actually, I believe slashdot got trolled again. I think the "reviewer" simply cut & pasted the Amazon review, then submitted it to slashdot.
BTW, American Interconnect was a boiler-room telemarketing scam operation that was raided by the feds in the early '90s (go down to about the 5th paragraph). -
Re:WHY MANDRAKE IS IMPORTANT
You mean this Bill Gates ?
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Re:Not unusual
It's really wonderful to know that the system mostly works.
The problem is it doesn't always work that way. Don't forget Cointelpro, and more recently the Ramparts case in LA and the Riders case in Oakland. As if to disprove that wide-spread, systematic abuse was part of the past, the DOJ brought us their post 9/11 roundup policy.
Getting a warrant is trivial. It is not an impediment to law enforcement and represents only the most inconsequential of protections (no wiretap request was turned down last year). What it does provide is a paper trail a tiny bit of oversight, and that means some recourse for the Abner Louima's of the world, and possibly a moment of reflection for the cops to question their own actions, even if the judge really isn't likely to.
It's right to help law enforcement in their legitimate business, but it's not up to a private company to determine legitimacy, it's up to the courts. That everyone has the right (I think still) to refuse to cooperate without a warrant is our only fig leaf; dropping it voluntarily just encourages abuse. We all owe it to our police forces to make it harder for the bad apples to ruin things for the good cops.
Hopefully some bad cop somewhere will misuse this policy of eBay's and the injured party will file a massive lawsuit against eBay for aiding and abetting the crime and collect a meaningful punitive reward. Probably not, but we can hope. In the mean time, eBay makes it easy for anyone who wants a few credit card numbers to pay their bills. -
Smoking Gun
How about Smoking Gun? Just an idea, for a case he will wipe that link out.
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Not exactly..He stuck a cigar into her not his cock..
And she licked his Orifice.. yeah that one..
That bit got redacted from the testimony.
You can gleem the info by looking at the index words for that page. They forgot to react those..
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Re:Ronnie Scelson's Info, Courtesy of ROKSO
in case you're wondering what there is to do in Slidell, LA...
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Re:SPAMHAUS Record on Scelson
Here are some other residents of Slidell, LA. They've got quite the populace down there, spammers and exhibitionists!
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Re:Can I sing them ?
No, if they hear you and don't enjoy it, they can sue, but probably only if they paid for it.
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It was amusing how she got hacked after that....
After Madona flooded the P2Ps with mp3s of her repeatedly saying "what the fuck do you think you're doing?" somone took an appropriate response by hacking her website, posting her full new album on it, and writting "This is what the fuck I think I'm doing..."
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Re:"Every musician is a magpie and a thief. "
I like how all the news outlets went on about it when he was charged but very few mentioned it when he was cleared.
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Speaking of child molestersIs this guy
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Speaking of oddball cases
Wow, some of those cases are freaky. You could probably use them as part of a Research Project for a whitepaper.
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Re:Tattoo, not the little guy that yells at planes
Almost as bad as this one
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It's real.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to be funny.
It's a real article. Read it here
Or alternatively, check out TGS Coverage -
Re:If I was an interviewer I'd ask the following..
1. Collect underpants.
2. ???
3. Profit!
I think Anthony Scholfield is in the midst of exploring step 2. -
Hmm...
I wonder if he got the virus from Pete Townshend's computer.
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It's already happening
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Re:I don't know...
He was loved by his mother, but hated by his alcoholic father...
Judging by his prior experiences, Nick Nolte was the perfect choice!
Mike -
Everybody! Everybody!
HOME STAR RUNNER!!! You watch it together, you both piss yourselves laughing. Everybody wins!!! Or, alternatively, tell kids why they should avoid agin popstars who look like anorexic ghosts.
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Re:BSD Found on Road, Dead"In a surprising turn of events, BSD was found lying dead on the side of the road in Milwaukee..."
And, fear not good citizens, CNN.com was right on the ball, since they had already prepared the obituary on their web server sometime last month.
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Fidel Castro, dictator, dead at 55
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Re:Punch the monkey and win your freedom
More like people need to clue up and learn that this isn't who we need to run it. What you call Experianced I call Tainted. It's like giving Ken Lay of Enron fame the job of running Iraq's oil supplies (which may happen anyway). You are welcome to believe the PR job, go right ahead. But you better hurry as The Walrus and the Carpenter are expecting you.
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Re:If they're using Microsoft Webcams...
Not as bad as the poorly timed Hong Kong ads - "Hong Kong
... it will take your breath away"
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In related news
Owner of the Girls Gone Wild empire was arrested for reasons related to this article. A Good Thing, if you ask me.
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Re:It is specifically barred ...
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Re:Well...
Oh, I don't know.
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Yeah, right...
...and Hollywood is going to start honoring child rapists. Oh.
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Best War news ever ....
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Best War news ever
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I have a feeling..
I bet he's not going to try to patent anything like crashing your helicopter in Texas.
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would this help this guy?
would this help this guy?
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Actually...Microsoft funds terrorists!
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Re:Living with the consequences
Scumbags like Washington State supreme court justice Bobbe Bridge or our President and Vice President?
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um, would this really be wise?
Perhaps the death of this bill is better for the record industry. Think about it: if the RIAA can hack, then hackers' attention will be focused even more on the RIAA. Instead of DOSing their site, some script kiddie will find a way to *really* do some damage. Hell: it'd be funny to see their latest payola list on tsg. I can see it now:
KRAP: $5000 for playing Avril Lavigne 300 times a day
WJNK: $10000 for playing anything by Britney
and so-on.Oh, wait, they don't need to pay all those radio stations individually...one check made out to ClearChannel will do nicely these days...
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Re:Dude, you're getting a cellThis is what happens when the Dell kid smokes pot!!
You forgot the obligatory link to the story.
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Michael Jackson - SHOCKING Secrets revealed...
For the Information of well read /. readers,
Here is the bombshell court document that first raised allegations that the singer was involved in inappropriate behavior with a young boy:
READ THE FOLLOWING PAGES, YOU WILL BE SHOCKED !!
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 1
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 2
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 3
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 4
Also, on CNN:
Female Cheetahs go wild for Calvin Klein perfume -
Michael Jackson - SHOCKING Secrets revealed...
For the Information of well read /. readers,
Here is the bombshell court document that first raised allegations that the singer was involved in inappropriate behavior with a young boy:
READ THE FOLLOWING PAGES, YOU WILL BE SHOCKED !!
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 1
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 2
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 3
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 4
Also, on CNN:
Female Cheetahs go wild for Calvin Klein perfume -
Michael Jackson - SHOCKING Secrets revealed...
For the Information of well read /. readers,
Here is the bombshell court document that first raised allegations that the singer was involved in inappropriate behavior with a young boy:
READ THE FOLLOWING PAGES, YOU WILL BE SHOCKED !!
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 1
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 2
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 3
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 4
Also, on CNN:
Female Cheetahs go wild for Calvin Klein perfume -
Michael Jackson - SHOCKING Secrets revealed...
For the Information of well read /. readers,
Here is the bombshell court document that first raised allegations that the singer was involved in inappropriate behavior with a young boy:
READ THE FOLLOWING PAGES, YOU WILL BE SHOCKED !!
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 1
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 2
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 3
Michael Jackson Sued - Page 4
Also, on CNN:
Female Cheetahs go wild for Calvin Klein perfume -
Re:Remember... Finders Keepers...
18 USC 641 disagrees with you. That's what you'll be charged with if you keep Shuttle pieces, as The Smoking Gun has cheerfully shown us in the cases of Merrie Hipp and Bradley Gaudet.
You'll note there's no exception in there for "salvaging" it from your front yard. If it says "U.S. Government Property" on it, I suggest you return it -- but IANAL, so you're free to disregard my advice. -
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right, I think it's more the publishing what they found that was the issue (something the cops don't do).
Sure they do. Court records such as transcripts and search warrants for example. Another example, this quote from the article
Searching through her trash back at Central Precinct, they found traces of cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as drug paraphernalia. They also found a bloody tampon. They sent a piece of the tampon to the state crime lab, where forensics experts tested it for drugs, DNA and, for reasons that remain unclear, semen. The results of those tests have not been released.
Someone told the reporters. You are correct in that the police didn't publish, they used a third party to accomplish the same result.
Not to mention, any notes made by trash picking detectives could easily show up on the The Smoking Gun -
No he isn't.
Unless a traffic violation with no serious injury is a Felony in New Mexico. I'm no worshipper of Gates, but jeesh... come on --- that's just libel.
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Re:What about the Brittish goverment
For the files themselves, see The Smoking Gun.
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Re:watch the slashdot effect live!
>...Gates bad.
and here's the proof... http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/gatesmug1.ht ml -
Re:In Iraq
....they sing patriotic songs about Saddam. And they are told that iraq is the best country in the world.
Hmm makes you wonder.
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Spammer pic: Same guy? Twins? Cousins?
The picture of the spammer (at the CBS news article) looks strikingly similar to the Drudge Report picture Anthony Pellicano, a top hollywood PI caught with military C4 explosives in his safe and entangled in a Steven Segal/NYTimes reporter extortion case.
So the spammer is a crook in his other double life, too! ;)
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Interesting memo
Who else has thought about this: what if, durring the first moon landing, the astronauts had successfully landed on the moon... but had been unable to take off to return home?
Obviously, this didn't happen, but the White House was aware of this posibility at the time, as this fascinating memo indicates (written by William Safire, now the NYTimes columnist and english language maven).
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Re:Okay, question time...
IANAL, but I'd guess it's like formerly restricted encryption software. Back when we had the 128-bit version of Netscape and the 40-bit "export" version, I seem to recall there being a question about whether or not you could travel abroad with a laptop that had the strong version installed.
It's probably legal to download it abroad and bring it into the US, but not to distribute it to anyone. Of course there's no way this can be enforced, and the US government is much more concerned about drugs and weapons (is strong encryption software still classified as a "munition?") than literature (unless it's pornography) -
Re:New Campaign
Listen up, SEAN COMBS. You owe me for having to put up with your over-sampled, entirely lifted 'music'. You are an excellent example of how 'the public' will eat anything put in front of them, including a steaming bowl of crap.
Hey, watch it, pal! Do not disturb the sexy!
Steve