Aunty Spam thinks this just might be cruel and unusual punishment (she’s kidding, folks):

… television news reporter Jim Taricani is sentenced to six months of house arrest for contempt of court, for refusing to reveal the source of a videotape which shows acts of political corruption taking place. First amendment issues aside, what is so striking about this case is that while Taricani is sitting at home doing his house arrest time, he has been forbade from accessing the Internet!

They let inmates write letters and amazingly some of them get married while in prison. What kind of person would marry someone who was in prison, anyway? I suppose if it’s somebody that’s in the hole for something non-violent and they weren’t going to be in very long … but for lifers (or those on the Row) what kind of married life would that be? I guess that’s like marrying a penpal or something? Or marrying a blogger that you can never meet?

I digress. If someone is on house arrest this shouldn’t give them any other privileges than being in jail, so I think the court made a good decision. I wonder though what kind of monitoring they are going to do to make sure this guy isn’t using a cellphone or tap his neighbor’s open WiFi through his Pocket PC to surf the web?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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