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TN Man Indicted For Romney Blackmail Attempt: Wanted $1M In Bitcoins
OakDragon writes "A Franklin, Tennessee man has been indicted for his attempt to blackmail Mitt Romney. Michael Mancil Brown allegedly claimed his intent to release some of Romney's pre-2010 tax documents unless one million dollars was converted to Bitcoins and deposited into an account which he specified. Demand letters were sent to Republican and Democratic Party offices in Tennessee, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (whom he claimed to have stolen the documents from). Pricewaterhouse Coopers denies that he ever obtained such documents. Brown was also attempting to "sell" the documents to others (presumably the Democrats or other interested parties) for the same amount. And yes, he was apparently well aware of the Dr. Evil reference."
Its not. It is an opening for an argument about Mitt Romney and his policies which will never be implemented at the top federal level. Page views = ratings...
Republican vs Democrats is always a good place for someone to fight. Do not give into 'we vs they'. There is only us.
"If he just asked for dollars instead of bitcoins, would you still have posted this??!! I don't get it, what makes this story relevant to tech or geeky news??"
A man from Tennessee knows what bitcoins are and he assumes that Romney does too, isn't that wild enough for you??
And if you had changed that last sentence to "appeals to Democrats", you'd have Obama. I guess that's why some people are upset over the two party system in US politics.
"Democrat Party" sounds like you're deliberately using bad grammar to demonize democrats, because they rate so low in your estimation.
If Obama's massive spending and borrowing scared the shit out of investors, dragging out the recovery, then Obama was literally about 50,000 times worse than Romney, assuming you wanted to assign all Bain blame to Romney.
For this not to be true, you have to hope and pray investors are not signicantly scared and skittish when politicians spend out of control and scream the only way out is increasing taxes on them.
NO. I'm sure I'm wrong. Go on about your business.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.