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October 25, 2008

Joe the Plumber - how an O! admin will handle apostates UPDATED

McCain cites O!'s revealing "spread the wealth" answer to Joe in the last debate and within 24 hours Obama supporters in Ohio government are accessing Joe's information

"State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber." [...]

Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate.

Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department. [...]

The attorney general's office is investigating if the access of Wuzelbacher's BMV information through the office's Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway computer system was unauthorized, said spokeswoman Jennifer Brindisi.

"We're trying to pinpoint where it came from," she said. The investigation could become "criminal in nature," she said. Brindisi would not identify the account that pulled the information on Oct. 16.

Records show it was a "test account" assigned to the information technology section of the attorney general's office, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Thomas Hunter.

Brindisi later said investigators have confirmed that Wurzelbacher's information was not accessed within the attorney general's office. She declined to provide details. The office's test accounts are shared with and used by other law enforcement-related agencies, she said.

On Oct. 17, BMV information on Wurzelbacher was obtained through an account used by the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency in Cleveland, records show.

Mary Denihan, spokeswoman for the county agency, said the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services contacted the agency today and requested an investigation of the access to Wurzelbacher's information. Cuyahoga County court records do not show any child-support cases involving Wurzelbacher.

The State Highway Patrol, which administers the Law Enforcement Automated Data System in Ohio, asked Toledo police to explain why it pulled BMV information on Wurzelbacher within 48 hours of the debate, Hunter said.

The LEADS system also can be used to check for warrants and criminal histories, but such checks would not be reflected on the records obtained by The Dispatch.


Don't worry, I'm sure the Ohio AG, you know, will get to the bottom of this breach that happened within her own department ... say sometime late November?

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

***UPDATE*** Jeff Goldstein points out this falls into line with Alinsky, coupled with The One's pay to play approach to media -- all designed to effectively control The Narrative(tm).

What we have been witnessing, since the political implications of the linguistic turn have been carefully studied and gamed, is the “civilized”, “academic” version of witch hunts — with the burnings, drownings, and lynchings replaced by metaphorical equivalents: loss of credibility, character taint, the appearance of impropriety (generally, in accusations of “racism,” “sexism,” “homophobia,” etc.).

This has all been carefully planned and implemented, and is — as I’ve long argued — the inevitable endgame for progressive politics and the philosophical assumptions and imperatives that underly the ideology.

By taking back language — the very thing that defines “truths” as man can articulate them, the very thing that frames “knowledge,” as man is capable of collecting it — we can take back the ground upon which meaning is decided upon. This need not be metaphysical; it could be nothing more than a return to the social contract built upon a rule of law wherein the law is decided upon based on a consensus opinion to appeal to the intent of the founders in whose politically experimental context we as a nation have agreed to operate.

Such a maneuver would make it far more difficult for identity politics and “multiculturalism” — the great balkanizing agents upon which progressivism depends — to survive logical scrutiny. It would turn the concept of a “Living Constitution” into unserious (and logically incoherent) mush; and it would reaffirm a common national social contract.

The election of Obama represents the opposite of all those ideals, just as progressivism, though it hides in the party that describes itself as “liberal,” is the precise antithesis of the classical liberalism upon whose precepts this country was founded.

To get back to celebrating and protecting the individual and individual rights, we must get back to respecting intent and appealing to it as a basis for securing a coherent epistemology.

Any thing else constitutes the poststructuralist’s vaunted and poet “drift” — the non-romantic upshot of which is that he who controls the ebb and flow of drift controls the paradigm, and so the power.

Posted by Darleen at October 25, 2008 09:43 AM

Comments

Graeme Frost thinks you all should stop being such whiny-ass babies.

Posted by: Josh at October 25, 2008 10:20 AM

Yes, Josh, because the difference between a reporter and a law enforcement official is ...?

And why then was the O! camp so upset when The One's passport file was accessed? Or why should people have been disciplined when accessing Britney's medical records?

Keep up the mendacity, Josh, you are so good at it.

Posted by: Darleen at October 25, 2008 10:57 AM

And why then was the O! camp so upset when The One's passport file was accessed?

Ah yes, they wanted and independent prosecutor and congressional investigation until it was revealed Obama paid for it. It was done by a consultant in Obama's campaign who looked at McCain and Hillary's passport too.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at October 25, 2008 01:27 PM

So Josh thinks that because this was done to someone else he supported, then it should be done to someone he dislikes? Sounds like the definition of progressivism to me.

Posted by: Chris at October 25, 2008 05:23 PM

So it's ok for Michelle Malkin to stalk a teenage kid, but if someone dares to look at Joe the fake plumber's creds, it's a horrible invasion of privacy. Weird how selective your outrage is, Chris.

Thanks for the Goldstein excerpt, 'leeny. I was wondering why he couldn't even finish his Ph. D at a shitty third-rate school. Now I know.

Posted by: Josh at October 25, 2008 08:26 PM

My point was that your principles are checked at the door, Josh. When it's your ox being gored, you have them, but when your political opponents take one in the shorts they must have deserved it.

Posted by: Chris at October 26, 2008 02:23 AM

And that was my point about you and Darleen, Chris. You didn't care when Malkin was stalking Graeme Frost, but now you're pretending to care about this. Clearly you only care when it's your ox being gored.

Posted by: Josh at October 26, 2008 06:25 AM

Josh

You really do get your talking points from Markos and regurgitate them unexamined, don't you?

There is no comparison between the Frost family and Joe the Plumber. The most significant being that Malkin, a journalist, did normal and routine reporting versus people WITHIN THE OHIO GOVERNMENT illegally accessed government computer information. It is akin to the Obama supporter that illegally hacked Gov. Palin's email account and who is now facing 5 years in jail.

Good lord, Josh, you're like a person who sees no difference between love making and rape because they both involve sexual intercourse.

Posted by: Darleen at October 26, 2008 08:08 AM

Malkin isn't a journalist. And you were whining about the expose of Joe the Fraud before this particular incident. At least try to make your lying plausible.

Posted by: Josh at October 26, 2008 10:14 PM

Joe the fraud? Geez, Josh, are you resume padding for position of kapo in the Obama/Ayers re-education camps?

Posted by: Darleen at October 26, 2008 10:20 PM

What else do you call someone who says their a plumber when they aren't licensed and doesn't pay their taxes. Wingnuts shouldn't try to do populism.

Posted by: Josh at October 27, 2008 09:59 AM