From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 06:20:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Leahy bill nightmare scenario?
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At 09:09 PM 3/11/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 11:29 PM 3/11/96, jim bell wrote:
>
>>Welcome to prison, Tim.  Your optimism will serve you well, there.
>>
>>BTW, it is clear that you haven't yet read Mr. Junger's analysis of the
>>bill.  Nobody except a government stooge could read that and not wonder why
>>anybody would support that bill.  A complete re-write is called for.
>
>A question, Jim: do you _ever_ just respond calmly to a post you disagree
>with, or is everyone you disaagree a stooge, a cretin, an agent for the
>Feds, or someone who should be disposed of with your "assassination
>politics"?

What's your definition of "calmly."  I'm as "calm" as you can imagine. I 
simply have not a shred of mercy in me for people who can't accept reality.

>Yes, I read Junger's analysis. A nice analysis. What does this have to do
>with the points I was making? I'm a government stooge, to use your terms,
>because of my points about hotel rooms?

Fortunately for me, Tim, and unfortunately for you, a friend of mine visited 
me last night, an ex-cop who is now a cabbie (he left the force due to an 
accident, slipping on glare ice chasing a "perp", which caused an inoperable 
back injury).  Being a cabbie (in the same town he was a cop), and very 
familiar with the "drug" and "prostitute" sections of town, I asked him 
whether or not he was aware of a hotel or motel ever being siezed by the 
govt. for "tolerating" drugs and/or prostitution.

His reply was that as we speak, he knows exactly where a motel has been 
closed, locked up, and BARRICADED with _city_ signs and POLICE TAPE (you 
know the kind, "Police line:  Do not cross.").  We're not talking of a 
bankrupty, or a voluntary shutdown, either.  His understanding was that this 
was on the news a while back.  Would you like the name and address?  I 
didn't ask him for it, but I'm sure he'll be driving by it again 
within the next week or so.

I accept your anticipated apology, Tim.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com