Ok, enough joking. Kevin was finally released. Now I am tempted to put another satire page up about the bizarre terms of his probation, but I've decided to come clean. Did Kevin hack? Yes. Was what he did illegal? Probably. Did he deserve jail time for what he did? Maybe. Did the US government ignore its own Constitution in its treatment of Kevin? Most definitely.

That was the purpose of this page. I understand it lost a lot in the translations I made, and for that, I apologize to our foreign friends for the confusion. But for all of you native English speakers that sent me hate mail (and I especially liked the death threats), I have to say, "What the hell is wrong with you?" Maybe it was my fault, maybe I wasn't outrageous enough. But to get more ridiculous would have destroyed the purpose.

The purpose of the page was to take what the government thinks, and go a step beyond. I THOUGHT that was pretty ridiculous (seeing as what the government thinks is already pretty way out there) but I guess it didn't show. I did get one person who linked to my site and actually compared it to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal". Wow. If anyone would have told my high school English teacher that I would even be passingly compared to Swift, he would have laughed so hard that he would have coughed up his one good lung. I thank you sir. Visit his site here.

 But I digress. As I said, the purpose of the page was not to make fun of Kevin. It also wasn't necessarily a "Free Kevin" site. It was more a "Give Kevin his day in court and let his freedom or punishment be determined by a jury of his peers like the US Constitution says" site. I wasn't going to argue with people over whether or not he deserved to be in jail. My personal opinion on it was and still is irrelevant. But what I did see, and what shocked me as an American citizen was a person being stripped of his Constitutional rights. Regardless of what he did or didn't do, no one deserves that.

And it should shock everyone. If they can take away the rights of one man, then they can take away the rights of everyone. That is what this page was all about. A protest against the erosion of our rights by the very people who were put in place to protect them.

 I'm Travis Fessler, and I thank you.