-- Tim May wrote:
Which may actually be one of the main reasons he is being called, actually. What a great way for Big Brother to silence a leading Cypherpunk-friendly journalist.
At 01:52 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
I think I'm finally getting the answer to my question ...
You are kind of slow on the uptake. The government has been using the judicial process itself as a punishment for many years, most infamously the PGP grand jury. These subpeonas are a form of harassment. I curb my speach not for fear that I will be prosecuted, but for fear that I will be summoned as a witness, in the course of investigating a supposed conspiracy. Recollect the great indignation during the fifties about the way the government used an investigation of an entirely real conspiracy, a conspiracy directed by a hostile foreign power seeking the destruction of the US, as a punishment against those of certain political views. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qvmTY2l8Km4uBECjjQMiBNqss2WlO/xTlIhNDSDw 4UTt51zIkMGoCoaiuwKinwErcIjqvdr1n0Wrf7kcD