On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> 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:317375 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
