jail cell

This story is really weird:

Taping three minutes of “Twilight: New Moon” during a visit to a Rosemont movie theater landed Samantha Tumpach in a jail cell for two nights.

Now, the 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons from recording hot new movies and selling bootleg copies.

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Tumpach insisted she recorded no more than three minutes while in the theater — and said not all of the video she shot was of the movie. There’s footage of she and her relatives singing to her sister, she said. “We sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to her in the theater,” Tumpach said.

She also took pictures of family members in the theater before the film began, but an usher who saw the photo session never issued them a warning, Tumpach said.

This really sounds like some silly accident. I mean who is going to bootleg 3 minutes of a 2 hour movie? Luckily Tumpach is fighting the charges and hopefully the person at the theater pushing these charges will get a nice lecture from the judge about something called “common sense”. Sounds to me like Tumpach might have a nice lawsuit against the theater in the future.

While Rita is the storm of the news reels right now,
another storm is brewing. This storm is really on a destructive path and can go
right through the White House.

That storm is named Patrick Fitzgerald. He is the special
prosecutor in the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. With his grand jury set
to expire next month, the speculation is now on whom all is going to be washed
away by this storm with an indictment.

People who have been watching this case very closely are
now speculating that John Bolton may be the source that Judith Miller is in jail
to protect. He has made numerous visits to her jail cell, and was one of the few
privy to the classified State Department memo that identified Valerie Plame as
Joe Wilson’s wife and as a CIA operative.

We already know that Scooter Libby, Cheney’s chief of
staff, and Karl Rove, Bush’s right hand man, are facing indictments. Both have
been identified by Time’s reporter Matt Cooper as a source of the leak, but now
eyes are also on an indictment possibly coming out against Bush’s diplomatic
crony.

If it does turn out that John Bolton was in fact a leaker
of classified information that will most likely hurt our standing with the
United Nations even more. Questions will be asked amongst top UN officials about
Bush’s forcing a person in there who is a security risk. Further more it will
severely cripple Bush’s agenda of restructuring the United Nations with John
Bolton at the helm.