From: amp@pobox.com
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 22:59:31 +0800
To: ichudov@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Jim Bell's Sentencing Delayed Again
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so saith ichudov@algebra.com ...

> Looks like Jim has been sentenced to 10 years without the right
> to correspondence.
> 
> To those who do not understand the cultural connotations of this 
> phrase, I will explain. During Stalin's purges around 1937, a lot of
> people were arrested and nothing could be found out about them -- 
> not even when they were held. Their relatives were later notified that
> the prisoners were sentenced to 10 years without the right to
> correspondence.

the parallels between modern america and just about an other totalitarian 
regime to date are hitting frighteningly close to home. 

I remember when I was told about the horrors of the nazi and russian 
children turning their parents in for whatever the state considered to not 
be proper. now we have D.A.R.E. 

i doubt such things are mentioned in public schools anymore.

> 
> That was an euphemism for being executed.
> 
> I would not be surprized if Jim committed a "suicide". With the advance
> of modern psychology and psychotropic drugs, that could even be a true
> suicide, done without physical assistance of Jim's captors.

you mean he would be fosterized?


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Name: amp
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Date: 11/22/97
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