[255] in Cypherpunks
Re: 'zines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri May 7 00:23:46 1993
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1993 10:24:58 EDT."
Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 11:59:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305 says:
> Peter Zenger was a publisher in New York during colonial times.
> He was arrested for publishing Bad Things about the King, which was illegal.
Bill is normally excruciatingly accurate, but in this case he is
slightly off -- he was charged with slandering the Royal Governor in
his newspaper. His defense was that his statements were true -- which
was not a defense under the law in question. The jury decided it was
sufficient, however. The rest of what Bill said was substantially
accurate.
Perry
