Is this really a good idea?
Eyewigger on I fear innocent people are fixing to get hurt:
18 USC § 1512 – Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant
d) Whoever intentionally harasses another person and thereby hinders, delays, prevents, or dissuades any person from—
(1) attending or testifying in an official proceeding;
(2) reporting to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,, [1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
(3) arresting or seeking the arrest of another person in connection with a Federal offense; or
(4) causing a criminal prosecution, or a parole or probation revocation proceeding, to be sought or instituted, or assisting in such prosecution or proceeding;
or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.(j) If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.
(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2) cause or induce any person to—
(A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or
(3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer or judge of the United States of information relating to the commission or possible commission of a Federal offense or a violation of conditions of probation [1] supervised release,, [1] parole, or release pending judicial proceedings;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(k) Whoever conspires to commit any offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.
You know SOP it seems to me that this bump should have a lot of meaning to many of the people who underestimate you and lay cyber traps out in the ether with the hopes that you’ll stumble.
Could this be a result of your recent banter with Patrica & her cohorts or yet another veiled warning for our Goat-herding friends in the great white north? Probably explains your graph earlier??????
And lest we forget this preceding section to “d)” :
(c) Whoever corruptly
http://www.slabbed.org/2012/10/03/
That day was the day I warned the goatherders to back off.
I’m done talking.
It would seem to me that by application of this law, Deano Banano and his buddies at BBE&C breaking in AMV’s office and removing her computer and the two laptops the Feds had stored there will come back to haunt them.
This situation reminds me of a movie, “The Sting”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfflhAHbT0
Where Mick , the professional con artist, gets stung at his own game by the good guys.
….but without the peppy Scott Joplin music and the feelgood ending
Rule #1:Don’t set a trap and later get caught up in it yourself and of course,
Rule #2: Don’t set traps, its not nice.