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>From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Australian cops nab Jim Bell-quoting online anarchist
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Background: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=proffr
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>From: "Gardiner, Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: We've got your man!
>Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:46:24 +1000
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>I thought the following story, to be published in the Melbourne Herald Sun
>tomorrow (June 5) may be of interest to you. It concerns "proffr", who you
>wrote about two weeks ago (May 15, "Online Cincy Cop Threats Probed")
>
>Regards,
>Ashley Gardiner
>
>By ASHLEY GARDINER
>
>AN M1 protester used the Internet to promote a scheme to raise bounty money
>for the assassination of public figures, a court heard yesterday.
>
>Kyneton Magistrates' Court was told Matthew Stephen Taylor made death
>threats addressed to Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon.
>
>Internet messages allegedly sent by Mr Taylor, 46, of Baynton St, Kyneton,
>have also come to the attention of the Australian Federal Police and the
>United States Secret Service, the court heard.
>
>Mr Taylor was charged with two counts of criminal damage last Friday.
>
>One charge relates to the vandalism of a McDonald's fast food outlet in
>Collins St.
>
>Three new charges of disobeying the directions of prison management were
>laid yesterday.
>
>Sen-Constable Nicholas Conte told the court he obtained photographs and
>video footage of Mr Taylor committing acts of vandalism.
>
>The footage includes Mr Taylor telling a Herald Sun reporter to read
>messages he uploaded to an Internet site under the alias "Robin Banks", the
>court heard.
>
>Threatening messages on the website, Melbourne Indymedia, had been traced
>back to Mr Taylor's Kyneton address, the court heard.
>
>Sen-Constable Conte told the court Mr Taylor had written about
>"assassination politics", a movement with US origins, which involved the
>raising of funds and payment to an assassin.
>
>"When sufficient funds are raised, people are asked to assassinate (a
>particular) person," Sen-Constable Conte said.
>
>"I believe (Mr Taylor) supports this cause by comments he has made on the
>Internet."
>
>The court was told the American proponent of assassination politics, Jim
>Bell, has been convicted by a United States court of threatening federal
>officials.
>
>Mr Taylor named a number of Victoria Police officers on the Internet who
>should be assassinated, Sen-Constable Conte said.
>
>The court heard Mr Taylor had posted a message directed at Chief
>Commissioner Christine Nixon saying "your blue storm troopers will be 'flash
>fried'."
>
>Directing his comments at Ms Nixon, Mr Taylor also allegedly wrote: "some of
>your pigs are wasting time ... they might be better off fetching your
>doughnuts."
>
>Under questioning from defence lawyer Cameron Ford, Sen-Constable Conte said
>no deaths had resulted from assassination politics.
>
>Magistrate William Gibb granted Mr Taylor bail provided he refrain from
>publishing threatening messages on the Internet.
>
>Mr Taylor, who the court heard has no criminal history, was ordered to
>appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on August 16.
>
>ENDS
>
>(The story, most likely with a photograph of Taylor, will appear at
>www.heraldsun.com.au in about five or six hours from now.)
