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RE: Birthers Punk'd! Hoax Kenyan Birth Certificate
Posted on August 07, 2009 at 07:35 AM (UTC) ( over 2 years ago )
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And don't think they won't find prosecute him.
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RE: Birthers Punk'd! Hoax Kenyan Birth Certificate
Posted on August 07, 2009 at 08:45 PM (UTC) ( over 2 years ago )
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Oh shit guys, he just copyasta'd laws at us! We're doomed!
I'm sorry you feel so butthurt over your movement being fooled by some random asshole on the internet. Oh, wait, I'm not sorry.
What's your next trick? Threatening to beat people with your totally awesome Jeet-Kun-Do internet toughguy skills? Maybe talk about a slander case?
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RE: Birthers Punk'd! Hoax Kenyan Birth Certificate
Posted on August 08, 2009 at 02:03 AM (UTC) ( over 2 years ago )
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It is illegal to counterfit an official document. Excellent research, devoid of empirical reasoning. The hoax is not and was never meant to be a copy of a real document. Any more than a Mickey Mouse club ID that has "driver's license" hand written across it and is posted on the internet. If somebody applied for a passport or other commerce (job, etc) that would be fraud. Generating this fake document, associated with no country and no real document is no crime. It is the same as a very humorous "Certificate of Appreciation" that I print all the time.
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RE: Birthers Punk'd! Hoax Kenyan Birth Certificate
Posted on August 08, 2009 at 09:48 AM (UTC) ( over 2 years ago )
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YAWN!
This does not apply. Fair Use protects such practices when enacted for artistic purposes - such as fooling gullible idiots - or commentary.
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Watching an episode of Nightcourt doesn't make you a fucking lawyer.
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RE: Birthers Punk'd! Hoax Kenyan Birth Certificate
Posted on August 07, 2009 at 03:24 AM (UTC) ( over 2 years ago )wrote the following:
Someone is really stupid. I wonder if it'll be as funny when they're sitting in jail?
UNITED STATES CODE
TITLE 18 CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 47 FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS
§ 1028. Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication features, and information
(a) Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (c) of this section—
(1) knowingly and without lawful authority produces an identification document, authentication feature, or a false identification document;
(2) knowingly transfers an identification document, authentication feature, or a false identification document knowing that such document or feature was stolen or produced without lawful authority;
* * * shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) of this section is—
(1) except as provided in paragraphs (3) and (4), a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 15 years, or both, if the offense is—
(A) the production or transfer of an identification document, authentication feature, or false identification document that is or appears to be—
(i) an identification document or authentication feature issued by or under the authority of the United States; or
(ii) a birth certificate, or a driver’s license or personal identification card;
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(c) The circumstance referred to in subsection (a) of this section is that—
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(3) either—
(A) the production, transfer, possession, or use prohibited by this section is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce, including the transfer of a document by electronic means; or
(B) the means of identification, identification document, false identification document, or document-making implement is transported in the mail in the course of the production, transfer, possession, or use prohibited by this section.
(d) In this section and section 1028A—
(1) the term “authentication feature” means any hologram, watermark, certification, symbol, code, image, sequence of numbers or letters, or other feature that either individually or in combination with another feature is used by the issuing authority on an identification document, document-making implement, or means of identification to determine if the document is counterfeit, altered, or otherwise falsified;
(2) the term “document-making implement” means any implement, impression, template, computer file, computer disc, electronic device, or computer hardware or software, that is specifically configured or primarily used for making an identification document, a false identification document, or another document-making implement;
(3) the term “identification document” means a document made or issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a State, political subdivision of a State, a sponsoring entity of an event designated as a special event of national significance, a foreign government, political subdivision of a foreign government, an international governmental or an international quasi-governmental organization which, when completed with information concerning a particular individual, is of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purpose of identification of individuals;
(4) the term “false identification document” means a document of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purposes of identification of individuals that—
(A) is not issued by or under the authority of a governmental entity or was issued under the authority of a governmental entity but was subsequently altered for purposes of deceit; and
(B) appears to be issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a State, a political subdivision of a State, a sponsoring entity of an event designated by the President as a special event of national significance, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a foreign government, or an international governmental or quasi-governmental organization;
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(6) the term “issuing authority”—
(A) means any governmental entity or agency that is authorized to issue identification documents, means of identification, or authentication features; and
(B) includes the United States Government, a State, a political subdivision of a State, a sponsoring entity of an event designated by the President as a special event of national significance, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a foreign government, or an international government or quasi-governmental organization;
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(f) Attempt and Conspiracy.— Any person who attempts or 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 attempt or conspiracy.