Right, but the only way we know she was doing this was because someone illegally hacking into her account.
I understand, and to some degree, share, your feelings of being conflicted. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Her privacy was violated (or whatever the law was the kid broke). >> Period. End of story. As I have said repeatedly, if we start placing >> blame on the victims, we are basically legitimizing the crimes and >> saying the victims deserved it. > > I don't think that a government official has the same expectation of > privacy when operating in a public capacity. If she was a private > individual, however notable, operating in a private capacity, even if > running for office, then I would completely agree. But if someone is > using a communications mechanism for communications in a role that > overlaps their job as a public employee, then I don't think the same > standard applies. If my employer checks out an email that I'm sending > from a company computer during work hours, I would understand that. I > don't have the same expectation of privacy in my role as an employee. > The difficulty here is that Gov. Palin was apparently using a personal > account for public business and seemingly in an attempt to make these > very waters murky. Public business is public business. I don't care > which email address you are using for it. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
