Mormon Geek ... going to jail

[_Joe Geisner]

http://gawker.com/5962159/the-internets ... -geek-hero

Could it be this hacker removing posts?

[_schreech]

Goatse security. LOL.

[_Blixa]

Ugh. That guys is King Douche. Also, I rather doubt his commitment to Mormonism---in fact you can read about his "dating of a Mormon woman" in the comments by one of her roommates.

And the descriptions of his conversion sound rather dubious:

Auernheimer said he joined a ward in the San Francisco Stake of the Church of Latter Day Saints witnessing a powerful speech by the patriarch. The speech was about the power of anonymity: how Mormon missionaries who arrive, anonymous, in a strange new town have the freedom to say and do things they wouldn't if bound by the social bonds of everyday life.

"The Patriarch" was giving a speech? About the power of anonymity? And how missionaries have freedom to say and do things beyond normal social conventions? I dunno, somehow this doesn't sound especially legit. Especially when punctuated by bragging about drinking, drugs and stuff like this:

While talking with him I often lost track of which of the many girlfriends he was talking about.

"My saving grace is that I know how to stick my dick in the right place. A couple of them wrote me checks and that's how we're funding my defense," he says. One recent ex had access to her dad's private jet, and the two would fly to exotic locales in India and the South Pacific, he claims.

Auernheimer has been under strict bail conditions since his arrest, which for a while included a ban on using the internet except related to employment. But he'd found a forced internet sabbatical refreshing after years of virtual living.

"I started smoking cigarettes, and I drank at bars and picked up women," he says. He improved his welding skills and believes he is more prepared for the stint in prison he had expected even before the verdict was handed down. "I've sharpened many of the tools in my toolkit. My rhetoric has improved. Solely by the number of women I've seduced, this sharpened it."

"Weev" (UGH!) reminds me another "Mormon" troll: Michael Crook. Both are borderline sociopaths whose connection to Mormonism is tenuous and opportunistic.