From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:42:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: write up AP for FC++
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At 06:49 PM 9/27/97 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
> > If you publish your idea in appropriate forums, you can get away with it.
> >
> > If you go from forum to forum singing your idea like a broken record, 
> > and flogging it like soap, you will probably go to jail.
> >
> > I see no point in explaining our ideas so thoroughly and repeatedly
> > that even cops and politicians start to understand them.

At 09:04 PM 9/27/97 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
> Try to keep in mind that Bell went to jail for crimes only semi-related to
> his AP ranting.

Not too many people face a lengthy period of imprisonment without trial,
followed by a lengthy period of imprisonment without sentence, for using
a false social security number and possession of a stink bomb.

Actually Jim Bell's greatest offence was being broke.  I have seen some
truly laughable convictions of people with public defenders.  He who pays
the piper calls the tune.  If you are charged with politically incorrect
crimes, and have a public defender, you have two prosecutors and no defender,
and under those circumstances a prosecutor could convict a dog of being
a ham sandwich, and have him sentenced to death by drowning in mustard.
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