From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 02:51:07 +0800
To: Alan <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Jim Bell (FINALLY!) Charged
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At 09:29 AM 7/11/97 -0700, Alan wrote:
>Oregonian Friday July 11, 1997 Page B3
>
>James D. Bell was charged Wednesday with interfearing with a federal
>officer 

Don't you (or someone you conspire with) actually like have to communicate or 
be in the presence of a federal officer for that federal officer to be 
interfered with?  I don't remember any direct interference from the 
paperwork.

>and using false Social Security numbers.  He has been held without
>bail in the Pierce County Jail since his May 18 arrest.

Sounds dangerous.  How did he use them?

>However, sources close to the case said Thursday that plea negotiations
>are under way and are likely to be concluded before then.

Another one of those face saving plea bargains that the Feds accept when they 
know they've bit the big one.

[Warning old, politically incorrect law school joke coming up.]

What was the biggest charge reduction in the history of plea bargaining?  
That would have been the reduction from a charge of Sodomy to a charge of 
Following Too Close. -- From the International Committee for the Preservation 
of Politically Incorrect Law School Jokes.

>In an affidavit for the search warrant, IRS Special Investigator Jeff
>Gordon said that Bell was "directly soliciting others to set up a system
>to murder government officials" and that he had devised a plan to
>overthrow the government.

So where are these "others" and why are they still being allowed to walk the 
streets?  Last time I looked, it was legal to devise a plan to overthrow the 
government.

They always prey on the weak or sick.

DCF

All right.  You forced me.  "Why do they call it the 'Reasonable Man Test'?  
Because there's no such thing as a reasonable woman."  (See Above)  [Duck and 
Cover!]

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