[91771] in Cypherpunks
Re: Columbian squib on Bell sentencing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (frissell@panix.com)
Sat Dec 13 10:03:34 1997
From: frissell@panix.com
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 09:38:48 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971212220205.006c67c8@pop.sirius.com>
Reply-To: frissell@panix.com
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>>From The Columbian's web site at
><http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/topstories.html>:
>
> 'Assassination Politics'
> author gets 11 months
>
> TACOMA, Wash. - James Dalton Bell, the Vancouver man who wrote an
>Internet essay entitled "Assassination Politics," was sentenced this
>morning to 11 months in prison and two to three years of tightly supervised
>probation.
Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already). They've got to be kidding.
This is misdemeanor territory. I know he was chicken enough to plead but
Milken pleaded and got 10 years! We're quaking in our boots out here.
DCF
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