From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:57:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Fw: Jim Bell Sentenced (fwd)
Message-ID: <199712141612.KAA02045@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:45:19 -0500
> From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Jim Bell Sentenced (fwd)

> Now, is it not true that we've self-censored ourselves into believing 
> Jim is just a fool, rather than a gutsy guy willing to do what most
> of us will not, instead preferring covert self-censorship over the 
> all-too-easily opposed group-think kind.

Spin-doctor alert.

Jim Bell plea bargained period. Had he had one iota of the 'guts' you so
blithely banter about the case would be going to trial.

Plea-bargaining = capitulation = self-censorship


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