Give it a rest, Marktardo, or we’ll trace your IP, find out where you live and send out a band of patriots with some rope.
JenTheNeoCon, to Marko.
maybe they were just going to hog tie Marko and leave. it wouldn’t stand in court as a death threat. are there any others i am not aware of?
I assure you, that one would stand in court.
You know in your heart that was an overt threat to lynch Marko.
I don’t know Rap. It was way over the line, and I condemn it roundly. I think is was a ban-worthy offense.
But in order for there to be any real threat, there has to be some kind of belief on the part of the threatened that the threat could be carried out, or would if it could. The threatening words were so over the top, and so out of the realm of reality, that it seems more like childish emotional blustering than an actual threat meant to be taken seriously. I don’t think there’s any way Marko could have felt legitimately intimidated, let alone threatened by JenTheNincompoop’s words.
Give it a rest, Marktardo, or we’ll trace your IP, find out where you live and send out a band of patriots with some rope.
JenTheNeoCon, to Marko.
maybe they were just going to hog tie Marko and leave. it wouldn’t stand in court as a death threat. are there any others i am not aware of?
I assure you, that one would stand in court.
You know in your heart that was an overt threat to lynch Marko.
yes i know in my heart that Jen was very upset with marko to the point of hate and probably did intend to post a threat, but a semi competent defense attorney could easily get it benched as there was no description actually made on exactly what the rope was to be used for. this has to be determined as evidence to be accepted by the court. Jen would surely walk out of this one
yes i know in my heart that Jen was very upset with marko to the point of hate and probably did intend to post a threat, but a semi competent defense attorney could easily get it benched as there was no description actually made on exactly what the rope was to be used for. this has to be determined as evidence to be accepted by the court. Jen would surely walk out of this one
Well, I bet she wouldn’t, actually, but we won’t know because Marko didn’t have any intention on filing charges - for the reasons IDP stated above. (Though I will note that the threat need not intimidate the target for it to be a crime.)
yes i know in my heart that Jen was very upset with marko to the point of hate and probably did intend to post a threat, but a semi competent defense attorney could easily get it benched as there was no description actually made on exactly what the rope was to be used for. this has to be determined as evidence to be accepted by the court. Jen would surely walk out of this one
Well, I bet she wouldn’t, actually, but we won’t know because Marko didn’t have any intention on filing charges - for the reasons IDP stated above. (Though I will note that the threat need not intimidate the target for it to be a crime.)
she didn’t even get banned from powerline forum let alone be considered a criminal defendent!!
yes i know in my heart that Jen was very upset with marko to the point of hate and probably did intend to post a threat, but a semi competent defense attorney could easily get it benched as there was no description actually made on exactly what the rope was to be used for. this has to be determined as evidence to be accepted by the court. Jen would surely walk out of this one
Well, I bet she wouldn’t, actually, but we won’t know because Marko didn’t have any intention on filing charges - for the reasons IDP stated above. (Though I will note that the threat need not intimidate the target for it to be a crime.)
she didn’t even get banned from powerline forum let alone be considered a criminal defendent!!
she didn’t even get banned from powerline forum let alone be considered a criminal defendent!!
One doesn’t need to happen for the other to take place, arch. While there are lawyers on the PL staff, they are not prosecutors with jurisdiction over the case.
she didn’t even get banned from powerline forum let alone be considered a criminal defendent!!
One doesn’t need to happen for the other to take place, arch. While there are lawyers on the PL staff, they are not prosecutors with jurisdiction over the case.
First off I did nothing to eliminate those two idiots, they were the agents of their own undoing.
Secondly, you can always get lawyers who are willing to argue legalities, and a smart and determined prosecutor can probably get anything he wants to trial, but if Rap takes a position, you can be near certain of rightness by embracing the opposite.
First off I did nothing to eliminate those two idiots, they were the agents of their own undoing.
Secondly, you can always get lawyers who are willing to argue legalities, and a smart and determined prosecutor can probably get anything he wants to trial, but if Rap takes a position, you can be near certain of rightness by embracing the opposite.
she didn’t even get banned from powerline forum let alone be considered a criminal defendent!!
One doesn’t need to happen for the other to take place, arch. While there are lawyers on the PL staff, they are not prosecutors with jurisdiction over the case.
Raptavio, are you a lawyer?
No. As I said, I used to be an admin of a forum larger than this and I did have legal counsel, and I did receive a crash course on the legalities of conduct by both administrators and users of Internet forums - liability, criminality, all that fun stuff.
This helped me muchly when I would receive phone calls on my home phone from irate users who threatened to sue me unless I removed a ‘defamatory’ post by another user. One was particularly fun - he launched a (very poor) DoS attack against my site - from his workplace, and then thought he could intimidate me. I -begged- him to sue me. Too bad he didn’t follow through.
