-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 12/13/97 9:38 AM, frissell@panix.com (frissell@panix.com) passed this wisdom:
From The Columbian's web site at <http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/topstories.html>:
'Assassination Politics' author gets 11 months
TACOMA, Wash. - James Dalton Bell, the Vancouver man who wrote an Internet essay entitled "Assassination Politics," was sentenced this morning to 11 months in prison and two to three years of tightly supervised probation.
Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already). They've got to be kidding.
This is misdemeanor territory. I know he was chicken enough to plead but Milken pleaded and got 10 years! We're quaking in our boots out here.
... hmmmm ... any hint of resrictions? i.e like not being able to use a computer or be on the Internet??? Considering how much they harped about the A.P. scheme I would have thought that would have been a centerpiece of any punishment they meted out to Jim. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNJL02j7r4fUXwraZAQG1Ogf/W/3Sq5L+KNmWQuNryYqXSlykB0zELONA bsdlh7X6OslhB0vcfDzTlScfHTAV0dSI3PjHRvVIxAa8/ofQqNsD3zBxT8yoeJ79 ++KkprNFbDBleOR5OQk2R4dh8NkxeSe/j64snL8ra4duipjWfizqaM/5He2+dYgy SdI6IVzQUFPbXUQEk5AFb0r9s0E5/3YFPK7dp6KpXilIbFWPweTzsZKn5UamsdBR m0rmWu+uH+5xL0+xbE5P0zGOEJtXzdaovQS8RSfKfOd3Fdnh75NFewPufM1aNDKd yfvmRHZLt3zwn9bNqd0tavSPo2hO66pQsIIM3sP4S0hF7Xp0PLTV3A== =y+eC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with in the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -- Gassee - Apple Logo