Robb London writes:
Attorney General Ashcroft personally approved your subpoena, and that
of another reporter who published admissions by James Dalton Bell.
I'm sure he did.
The Government is not seeking any source material, notes, or other
unpublished material from you by virtue of this
An anonymous twit writes:
Anger expressed by commission is usually justified by laudable motives,
e.g. concern for the well-being of the victim. The expression of the
anger is dictated by the desire to wound while concealing the intention
to wound -- even the existence of the anger. This is
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Internet is the ability of
small groups of motivated individuals to create the types of privacy
intrusions that used to be the exclusive domain of governments, law
enforcement, and credit bureaus.
Gone are the early days when the Net was solely
The AP is reporting that the three year old son of a police officer, in
Clarkesdale, Mississippi, climbed into the back seat of the family truck
while his off-duty father stopped for gas, picked up dad's pistol, aimed
it at the gas station attendant, and shot him in the face.
The attendant, an
Blank Frank wrote:
McVeigh's Former Attorney Willing to
Testify Against Nichols
This was the guy who acted like he was on the prosecution payroll
all during the trial, right?
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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be
A US Federal Appeals Court has tossed out the $109 million verdict against
anti-abortion activists who ran a website called "The Nuremberg Files",
which listed the personal information of abortion doctors, and cheered
whenever one of them was killed.
The Judge opined that as long as the
Anonymous writes:
Note that everyone who has ever disagreed with Mr. Echols is by
definition a "child sex predator and child pornographer" and winds up
having any personal information Mr. Echols can scrape up on them placed
on Mr. Echols Web site of "child sex predators and child
Does anyone know why the Cypherpunks archive at
www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/ has been down for over a day now?
If it's just a DNS problem, could someone post a numeric IP.
Thanks.
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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of
Norm Deplume wrote:
Law And Justice
by Irv Benzion
...
You are probably unaware as was I that it is illegal to criticize a
federal judge or his/her actions or to cause "disrespect" to the federal
court system. A federal judge may if in his/her opinion such an
occurrence arises, issue a
Ah, I see Declan has posted his impressions of Day 5 on Wired News.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42951,00.html
Jim Bell's Strange Day in Court
by Declan McCullagh
Bell's lawyer, Robert Leen, twice asked U.S. District Judge Jack
Tanner to halt the proceedings because his
Tim May Wrote:
I think the Bell case indicates the need for Cypherpunks to start
writing code again, and stop engaging in meatspace theatrics.
First, Bell's actions are not the actions of most members of this
mailing list. Frankly, this is a logical error: referring to
"Cypherpunks" as a
Norm Writes:
The Judge in the case was a Carter appointee who
came out of retirement just to hear Als case.
Judge
Tanners behavior in the trial created a court
transcript
that can only be
Norm writes:
Can a suspected pedophile claim that a virus downloaded the porn without
him knowing?
Preposterous? But can a cop or a lawyer explain why the defense is
preposterous?
Prior to the mainstreaming of Jesus Freaks and Victimology, I recall that
a study estimated the total number
Tim May Wrote:
Yep, all obvious stuff.
...
Time for Plan C.
Obvious too that if Jim Bell were a nym, there would be no one to send to
prison.
Now that the standard for sending someone away for five years is nothing
more than a statement by some jackbooted thug that they feel "harrassed,"
Well, now that the government's Pay Per View killing of Timothy McVeigh is
less than a month away, the disinformation campaign seems to be ramping up
in order to self-servingly spin his crime.
Witness the following pious piece of crap making the Email route around
the Net. Comments in [] are
John Young reports:
The judge ruled that publication of the names and addresses of
the cops and their families is protected by the First Amendment.
I'm really torn on this. As you no doubt know, there are numerous Network
Vigilantes who would publish my personal information instantly if
Jim Choate wrote:
Note that at NO time should anyones actual speech be monitored, measured,
or otherwise 'managed' by any 3rd party. It simply isn't needed.
Oh Bullshit.
If Fred has an odd sense of humor, and tells blind people the opposite of
what the traffic lights say, his actual speech
Tim Writes:
That would imply that only criminal and not civil action could be
employed when someone is injured or made less wealthy by the actions of
another, in the absence of contract, consideration, or concrete
property right.
Many actions make others less wealthy. When a Borders
Tim writes:
I make it a point not to respond to people who use the tired chestnut
Timmy in their arguments or examples.
If it doesn't apply to you... etc.
The Timmy in my hypothetical example isn't you any more than Alice,
John, or Fred are you.
Get over it.
When Eric Cordian has
Jim Choate writes:
If Fred has an odd sense of humor, and tells blind people the opposite
of what the traffic lights say, his actual speech needs to be managed.
You don't 'control the speech' you punish the son of a bitch for at least
attempted murder. A couple of those and 'odd sense of
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General John Ashcroft postponed next
week's execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
until June 11 and ordered an investigation into the FBI's failure to
turn over thousands of documents to McVeigh's defense team.
This looks like the
Jim Choate opines:
Extortion is theft by threat. The fact that it is done via speech or not
is irrelevant. It is the use of force that makes this a crime, not the
mechanism of that force.
I have your kid and if you don't put $50,000 in a brown paper bag, I'm
sending you an ear.
Before we
Jim Choate Writes:
- Each individual should show no self control over their speech,
they should in fact blabber whatever comes into their heads
in a continous stream of noise. Otherwise it's 'censorship'
because somebody might find the silence offensive
I've never said
Jim Choate writes:
Tim asserts that the falsehood John is a child molester should not be
subject to either civil or criminal action.
Exactly. The simple act of making that statement in public or private,
alone or in a crowd is irrelevant to any action that follows. It therefore
can not be
Jim Choate writes:
I've never said any such thing.
Don't confuse the issue with a strawman. I didn't say You said it, I
said it was a logical and rational reduction of your statements. Simply
that your position could be explained in a simpler manner. I re-worded it,
I most certainly didn't
Eyewitnesses report former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerry rounded up unarmed
women and children in Vietnam, and ordered his troops to open fire.
Does Sentator Kerry deserve Lethal Injection too?
Perhaps on Pay Per View with the proceeds going to the surviving relatives
of his victims.
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The government is being real careful not to let Tim McVeigh have a forum
to speak prior to his closed-circuit murder on May 16th. They have
forbiddden any televised interviews, and the lap dogs in the US press are
being very careful to not quote verbatim a single word McVeigh has said,
instead
A small addendum. Hostcentric, unhappy at comments about its threatened
unplugging of Phix's web server, unplugged it yesterday. This wasn't even
a day after their email threatening to discontinue service to Phix if the
SafeHaven web site was not dropped.
People thinking of doing business with
http://artifact.psychedelic.net/~emc/ailinks.html
There's a new movie by Steven Spielberg, from a project he picked up from
the late Stanley Kubrick, which will likely cause a Star Wars like
paradigm shift in our way of looking at computer programs and robots.
The movie is AI, based somewhat on
Cops in Idaho got a big surprise when they attempted to force six
young people to leave their rural home, and be placed into state
custody.
Our Idaho Junior Cypherpunks Academy should receive an extra large
subsidy this year.
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Statement of Robert Nigh, attorney, on the occasion of the execution of
his client, Timothy McVeigh.
-
At 7 a.m. this morning, we killed Tim McVeigh, the person responsible for
the Oklahoma City bombing. But we did much more than that. We also killed
Sergeant McVeigh, the young man who
Nice little piece on Digital Cash by Declan on Wired.
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44507,00.html
Then Declan tries to explain blind signatures.
Chaum's method preserved anonymity through a statistical technique. It
can be thought of this way: A customer of a virtual bank would
Amusing little story about a minor rental car company that installed
GPS in all its vehicles, and added fine print to its contracts to say
that they will dock clients $150 each time they exceed the posted speed
limit.
One customer was unamused when they lifted an extra $450 off his debit
card,
Someone wrote:
#Stella Nickell has never stopped denying she killed her husband
#Bruce with cyanide in 1986. But now her defense team says they
#can prove her innocence.
#Nickell, 57, is serving two 90-year prison terms after being
#found guilty of putting cyanide in a
Net Authority writes:
Dear Joe Cypherpunk,
It has recently been brought to our attention that you are, or have
been, in violation of the Net Authority Acceptable Internet Usage
Guidelines. It has been reported that you distribute and/or view
offensive materials over the Internet.
Net
In today's news of the truly odd.
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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- A newspaper editor and publisher was arrested for
publishing an article alleging a cover-up in an internal police
investigation he had filed an official complaint about, police records
show.
Dennis Cooper, 66, editor of the
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