Smart Retorts has links to the Smoking Gun report of his arrest, his myspace and blog.
Jake's quite an active internet poster as you can see at atriumjake@Everything2.com
It's not that hard to do some idiotic things when you are 20, or any age for that matter. I hope we, including Jake, get wiser as we age.
With the interconnectedness of the web you can generate some pretty amazing impacts with a stupid post (which he reposted 40 times according to the charging papers in New Jersey).
Context is always a challenge in cyberspace but it's hard for me to figure out what context would make the things he has written anything other than just really stupid.
Unfortunately in the case of his dirty bomb post, his stupidity caused a huge waste of law enforcement's time and moments of worry for millions of people.
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There's an important lesson here about being aware that what you post on the internet may come back to haunt you years after the fact. This young man may be okay with being single and working in a grocery store today, but it's hard to imagine what a prospective employer or his wife/children/grandchildren/family may think in the future should they come across his internet postings which according to the Smoking Gun include -
"This knucklehead behavior may not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Brahm's other online activity via MySpace and an ambitious blog on which he recorded all of his 2006 masturbatory activity. In his most recent MySpace blog entry, Brahm, an avowed Japanese pornography enthusiast, mentioned Iran's president: "I admire Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," he wrote. In a separate post, he listed his hobbies as "masturbating, watching foreign language films, playing cards, drumming, and sleeping. One day I hope to leave my house."The web is an interesting phenomenon in that way.
We've all written or said things that are best thrown out or forgotten about, but it's a different story when we commit things to electronic media stored on the Internet Archive, Google Cached Pages or an email server somewhere.
