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.