From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:40:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: RE: Bic-Assassins Convicted (fwd)
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At 4:21 PM -0800 11/2/98, Jim Choate wrote:
>Forwarded message:
>
>> From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
>> Subject: RE: Bic-Assassins Convicted
>> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 15:57:43 -0800
>
>>     BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Johnie Wise, 72, and Jack Abbott
>>     Grebe, 43, were convicted Thursday of two counts of sending
>>     threatening e-mails -- one message to the Internal Revenue
>>     Service and one to the Drug Enforcement Agency.
>>
>>     They could get life in prison at their Jan. 29 sentencing.
>
>I have a question, if they had threatened just a plain old citizen with
>this email would they also be facing this life imprisonment?
>

A very good point.

I've had cretins make death threats against me, threats which were probably
more realizable than these "Bic assassins" were fantasizing about, yet I'm
sure the local cops would have told me to chill out and just let it ride
had I brought the threats to their attention.

It sure is looking, pace this case and the Bell and CJ cases, that the
courts are being put at the service of government employees who feel
threatened.

--Tim May

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