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Jailed Spam King Caught Conspiring to Kill Witness
An anonymous reader writes "Spam king Christopher William Smith, aka Rizler, is facing up to life in prison for conspiracy to tamper with a witness and up to 20 years for endeavoring to obstruct justice. The charges are based on an alleged phone call in which he threatened to have a witness or the witness' family killed to prevent them from testifying against him in an upcoming trial on drug and related charges.
Hmm. An e-mail spammer demonstrates that he is a lowlife scumbag who deserves to be killed.
Why is this considered news?
All e-mail spammers should be tortured to death. I don't need an incident like this to prove it.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
How come Gay men make lousy mechanics? ... ...
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Because they keep mistaking the exhaust for an intake!
Thank you.. thank you... telling bad jokes here all year!
It's ok. . he's just been brainwashed by some fruity group. Don't get too excited Ms. Garrison.
I understand that serious things can be joked about. For example, I don't have a problem with the prison rape joke in Office Space.
It's the context of this joke that I don't believe we as a society should tolerate (in a social, not legal sense). Here we have an object of public scorn (the Spam King -- I hate him too) who might go to prison, and we think it's funny that he might get raped once he gets there. We're not joking about a general concept, we're laughing about a terrible thing that is likely to happen to a real person.
Making jokes about Catholic priests and little boys is one thing. Grinning at a specific boy as he walks into a private meeting with a Catholic priest is another.
Unless you think that the people making these jokes are secretly *for* prison rape [...]
Some of them are. They're not even secretive about it