From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: “Igor Chudov @ home” <ichudov@algebra.com>
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Reply To: <199704040410.WAA02207@manifold.algebra.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-04-04 05:29:43 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 21:29:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 21:29:43 -0800 (PST)
To: "Igor Chudov @ home" <ichudov@algebra.com>
Subject: Re: Jim Bell raid
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Yes, there are. I have a copy of the search warrant, IRS affidavit, and
list of seized items. Beyond that, there's nothing else in the court
record. And the U.S. Attorney isn't saying much.
-Declan
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> To all lawyers out there: aren't there PUBLIC RECORDS that contain
> teh search warrant with the probably cause explanation and other
> material? It would be interesting to send a letter to some court
> and ask for all public record stuff about jimbell.
>
> just an idea
>
> igor
>
> Duncan Frissell wrote:
> >
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> > At 12:16 PM 4/3/97 -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
> >
> > >It looks to me like this is real. Yow. Jim Bell is a goddamn loon, but I
> > >haven't seen him write anything that I thought was criminal.
> >
> > The government persists in harassing or arresting people in these 1st
> > Amendment cases even though they know they will not even be able to survive a
> > motion to dismiss. It seems to be recreational for them. You can tell
> > they're not serious because they didn't arrest Jim.
> >
> > JB has certainly managed to get noticed amongst all the "noise" out there in
> > the world. Very difficult to do. And it's getting worse with the Nets. How
> > many death threats must whitehouse.gov get these days? They probably lack
> > the person power to investigate all of them.
> >
> > This will be another one where the raid gets publicity and the failure to
> > prosecute is only noticed by a few. When they drop him, he should trumpet it
> > far and wide. The dropping of the Jake Baker case got little publicity and I
> > even had another lawyer on one of the law lists say that he thought they
> > might try for another indictment. I knew they'd never get anywhere.
> >
> > In those very rare cases where you get a guaranteed government loss criminal
> > investigation/prosecution the party involved should verbally abuse the
> > government and point out their manifest pathetic weakness. It is very rare
> > to be in that situation because the government won't usually back a loser. I
> > urged Phil Z. to take an aggressive approach in his case but he felt
> > uncomfortable about the idea. Perhaps as a "leftie" he granted the inherent
> > authority of the government and was reluctant to bash it.
> >
> > So, JB, find a Portland cybercafe and let 'em have it.
> >
> > DCF
> >
> > "Obligatory John Donne quote: Do Not Ask For Whom the Bell Tools. It Tolls
> > For Thee."
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>
> - Igor.
>
>
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