Roommate is guilty of covertly taping sex (Utah Airman/selling tapes)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

A Circuit Court jury convicted a 23-year-old Salt Lake man of covertly videotaping his roommate's sexual activities using a camera hidden in a clock radio.

Jason Turner, an airman first class, was found guilty as charged with four counts of first-degree invasion of privacy, with each count punishable by five years in prison.

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Turner denied videotaping his roommate, claiming Tripp knew about the hidden camera from the start and that it had been his idea to tape himself and make money uploading his photos to a gay porn Web site. He claimed there was an agreement between them to split the profits, with Turner getting 10 percent.

At Turner's sentencing on Aug. 15, Harada said he would ask that Turner, who has no prior criminal history and is an active volunteer in the community, be placed on probation.

http://starbulletin.com/2005/05/14/news/story9.html

[medeak]

1. now we know what really goes on

with missionaries?

[Roland99]

2. Yet more closeted right-winger homosexuality

It's like a challenge to these freaks.

[Jr_Samples]

10. Do what?

"Closet right-winger homosexuality"?

Have you even read the story?

[Roland99]

13. He was uploading stuff to a gay porn site

[susu369]

3. Wonder what type of volunteer community work

he does?

[bahrbearian]

4. Probably going to Do voluntary ,Wash. Press Corp, work.

[RC]

5. More info.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/May/14/ln/ln09p.html/?print=on

Jason Turner, an Air Force man stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, was found guilty of videotaping his 20-year-old roommate last year with a camera hidden in an alarm clock-radio in the roommate's bedroom.

He was tried in Oahu Hawaii, not Utah.

[DulceDecorum]

6. Thanks, but now I am confused.

Turner denied videotaping his roommate, claiming Tripp knew about the hidden camera from the start and that it had been his idea to tape himself and make money uploading his photos to a gay porn Web site. He claimed there was an agreement between them to split the profits, with Turner getting 10 percent.
http://starbulletin.com/2005/05/14/news/story9.html

Jason Turner, an Air Force man stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, was found guilty of videotaping his 20-year-old roommate last year with a camera hidden in an alarm clock-radio in the roommate's bedroom.
The roommate was taped having sex on multiple occasions. The incidents included separate encounters involving sex with different women. He was also taped with a third woman who was only partially dressed.
Turner's defense was that he didn't tape the roommate but rather that the roommate had taped himself and the women.
But a Circuit Court jury needed only about two hours of deliberations Thursday and yesterday before finding Turner guilty on four counts of violating the privacy of the roommate and three women. The jury was shown portions of videotapes with the roommate and the women engaged in sex.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/May/14/ln/ln09p.html/?print=on

GAY PORN WEBSITE?
SEX WITH WOMEN?

Hmmmmmm

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. I couldn't figure that one out either.

[LisaL]

9. Well, that is probably why the jury didn't buy it.

[Jr_Samples]

11. Couple of knuckleheads

Trying to "bag" as many women as possible and then sell their images to a homosexual web site. Hardly homo, but definitely stupid.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. I was just saying that he was FROM Utah, not tried there.

Ah, the state of the first 9-11 tragedy committed by religious fanatics.

[DulceDecorum]

12. Wot tragedy

I only look at the Utah that is a suburb of Boston,
(which geographical fact is why Mitt Romeny is Gov of Massachusetts)
but I have heard rumors that there is another one.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Mountain Meadows...

Mountain Meadows, a two-hour drive from one of the state's popular tourist destinations, Zion National Park, is the site of what the historian Geoffrey Ward has called "the most hideous example of the human cost exacted by religious fanaticism in American history until 9/11." And while it might not be a major tourist destination, for a century and a half the massacre at Mountain Meadows has been the focus of passionate debate among Mormons and the people of Utah. It is a debate that cuts to the core of the basic tenets of Mormonism. This, the darkest stain on the history of the religion, is a bitter reality and challenging predicament for a modern Mormon Church struggling to shed its extremist history.

On Sept. 11, 1857, in a meadow in southwestern Utah, a militia of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, attacked a wagon train of Arkansas families bound for California. After a five-day siege, the militia persuaded the families to surrender under a flag of truce and a pledge of safe passage. Then, in the worst butchery of white pioneers by other white pioneers in the entire colonization of America, approximately 140 men, women and children were slaughtered. Only 17 children under the age of 8 - the age of innocence in the Mormon faith - were spared.

from: http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon106.html

It was a question of "Blood Attonement" which essentially is the belief that non-believers are better off dead.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&q=mountain+meadows+utah&btnG=Search

[medeak]

15. been there

and there's just a tiny sign.... you'd think there would be a monument

[DulceDecorum]

16. Well, I'm shocked, but not surprised.

The extent of Paiute participation in the massacre is a point of disagreement among researchers. Some allege that some of the Mormon militia were dressed as Native Americans.
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"They professed to be on good terms with the Indians, and represented them as being very mad. They also proposed to intercede and settle the matter with the Indians. After several hours parley they, having (apparently) visited the Indians, gave the ultimatum of the savages; which was, that the emigrants should march out of their camp, leaving everything behind them, even their guns. It was promised by the Mormon bishops that they would bring a force and guard the emigrants back to the settlements. The terms were agreed to, the emigrants being desirous of saving the lives of their families. The Mormons retired, and subsequently appeared with thirty or forty armed men. The emigrants were marched out, the women and children in front and the men behind, the Mormon guard being in the rear. When they had marched in this way about a mile, at a given signal the slaughter commenced. The men were almost all shot down at the first fire from the guard. Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered. The women and children ran on, two or three hundred yards further, when they were overtaken and with the aid of the Indians they were slaughtered. Seventeen individuals only, of all the emigrant party, were spared, and they were little children, the eldest of them being only seven years old. Thus, on the 10th day of September, 1857, was consummated one of the most cruel, cowardly and bloody murders known in our history."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

That Moloch sure gets around.

[medeak]

17. on the site

neglected to say the tiny sign just said "mountain meadows"...no mention of historical site whatsoever.

Are historical sites signs by the state or feds?