Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Red Chinese Out to Get Alito Too?

I just received an unsolicited email addressed to "activists" (I'm not sure how I ended up on a leftist lunatic fringe mailing list, but that's not the interesting part, anyway). Here's a sample:
THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WILL DECIDE IF DEMOCRACY WILL SURVIVE

Bush is now completely and certifiably out of control. But to remove the last
restraint on the creation of a new American dictatorship they must install one
more lock down vote on the Supreme Court, in the person of Sam Alito.
The email then directs you to visit an "action page" to "build a consensus" against Alito's nomination.

The first interesting thing is that the webpage registrant is most noted for being caught with $13.8 million in pirated Novell software in 1998. The really interesting thing is that, after tracing this registrant through an Australian proxy, I found out that the "action page" lives on a server called REDPAL1 in Beijing, China.