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Man Threatens Schwarzenegger Via E-mail, Gets Busted For Child Porn



Deep in the realm of bad ideas, a man named David Kearby Clements sent a nasty e-mail to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in September 2004, protesting the lack of enforcement of California's Compassionate Use Act -- the initiative that was to allow medical use of marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.

According to court papers, however, Clements apparently made the e-mail faux pas of calling the Governator a "Nazi" and threatening to physically harm him. This, in turn, attracted the attention of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the agency responsible for protecting the governor.

On Feb. 16, 2005, CHP officers executed a search warrant at Clements' South Lake Tahoe home to obtain evidence that the e-mail originated on his computer, where they also found a bounty of "child pornography, sexually explicit images of minors, and child erotica," according to court papers.

On Monday, the 50 year-old Clements was sentenced to five years in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography.

The moral? Nazis and child pornography just don't mix. Clearly.

From SacBee

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