[104895] in Cypherpunks
More on Bic-Assassins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Fri Oct 30 16:09:27 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:19:07 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810301955.NAA26318@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Jim Choate:
What's the buzz in TX about the Bic-Assassins?
I spoke to a reporter at the Brownsville Herald who's
been covering the case and she says that local
folks think the men were entrapped by the government
with a sting.
Her story today and others previously at:
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com
She sent me a copy of the indictment which cites a
confidential "source" which set up the E-mail system
used to send threats to officials (the fink promised
the messages could not be traced - ouch!). The poor
saps were videotaped throughout their planning
and executing the threats, thanks to the informant's
arrangements:
http://jya.com/wge072198.htm
The informant is named in the court docket (which shows
that the defendants' attorneys put up a fierce fight
using First Amendment and other defenses discussed
here in regard to CJ):
http://jya.com/usa-v-wise.htm
The judge's rulings favored the government consistently,
though.
BTW, the prosecutor says that it made no difference that
nothing was ever done to act on the threats, no Bic-lighter
or bio-weapon was ever made, that it was enough under
the law for the threat to have been made. "Justice was
done," he said of the conviction.
