At 6:17 PM -0400 9/13/00, Steven Furlong wrote: >Tim May wrote: >... >> Lee spent 9 months in solitary confinement and lost significant >> salary and retirement benefits. >> >> This makes it a moral requirement that former Defense Secretary >> William Perry face a similar period of confinement and similar loss >> of benefits. Perry has acknowledged downloading top secrets to his >> home computer and leaving codeword material where his family, >> housekeepers, and other visitors could have found and copied it. > >For once, I am even harsher than Tim, or at least what Tim wrote. > >FBI and other agents admitted to making "misleading" statements in >their arguments to keep Mr Lee in jail. Every goverment employee >involved in "misleading" statements, pressure on Lee's family and >friends, and supression of exculpatory evidence should be immediately >jailed and held in solitary confinement for some multiple of the time >Lee was held. > >Those who would monitor and control our behaviour should be held to >higher standards than those they would control. Maybe harsher than what I wrote above, but, as you allude to, not necessarily harsher than what I think. Fact is, government criminals are almost never held accountable for their crimes. Order the killings of innocents...get a transfer and promotion. Write assassination manuals for third world police forces...get a medal. Illegally use FBI files to attack one's political opponents...be told not to do it again. Shoot an unarmed man 31 times in a hail of gunfire...be found innocent. And the gubment types and their court lackeys have written things so that "suing the government" is nearly impossible. Meanwhile, "double jeopardy" is being rolled-back on almost a daily basis. Prosecutors are congratulating themselves when they find loopholes and new laws which allow them to "take a second bite of the apple." Fucking creeps. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
