[90534] in Cypherpunks
Re: NBC Mugs Jim Bell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Nov 19 22:16:08 1997
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19971120003433.007127f0@pop.pipeline.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:48:16 -0700
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 5:34 PM -0700 11/19/97, John Young wrote:
>An NBC News story this evening on the threat of CB
>terrorism full-screened a closeup of Jim Bell's mug shot,
>the same as the lead photo in US News last week. The
>story presented much the same line and Internet
>sources of frightening information but did not balance
>it with a sidebar on burgeoning anti-terrorist opportunism
>as did US News.
Just in time for his sentencing tomorrow.....
Sort of like the way one of the guns on the list of "stolen guns" (from a
gunshop) had been bought by Terry Nichols a year before the robbery,
according to records which showed up in trial today. "Whoops." Sounds
like a setup, with false evidence, that the government screwed up.
Justice in Amerika. "Manufacturing Consent," indeed.
Go see "The Jackal" and root for Bruce Willis...I know I did.
--Tim May
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