[117816] in Cypherpunks
Re: Everyone is a felon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Sep 11 14:09:24 1999
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:34:22 -0700
To: Harmon Seaver <hseaver@arrowhead.lib.mn.us>
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Reply-To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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"James A. Donald" wrote:
> > My son is currently facing a federal felony charge for possession
> > of a pocket knife with a blade 2 and 5/8th of an inch long on a
> > university campus. Go measure your pocket knives.
At 05:13 PM 9/10/1999 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Don't know how they could charge him with a federal felony --
My mistake. It is California law 26.10B, not federal law.
> there are no fed laws regarding blade length,
Perhaps, but how would you know? There are innumerable federal laws,
and more every day. Every day in congress they pass enormously
lengthy laws that no congressman has read.
> Sounds like some overzealous brain-dead cop on crack weirded out on
> him.
He thought so to, but then looked up the law. It is real.
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James A. Donald
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