John Young wrote:
Anonymous said the stalking law used against Jim was enacted only a month before his arrest, and this trial is the first application of the law.
Your source is unreliable. These are testable assertions, and every single one of them is false. 1) Jim Bell was arrested November 17 2000 http://cryptome.org/jdb032801.htm 2) He was charged under U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2261A "Interstate stalking" http://cryptome.org/jdb111700.htm 4) That became law Sept. 23, 1996. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2261A.html http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2261A.notes.html 5) Nor is this trial the first application of the law http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.med.uscourts.gov/opinions/carter/1999/gc_2-99cr034_usa_v_brown_doc034_nov.pdf+Title+18,+United+States+Code,+Section+2261A&hl=en Granted, you can't be expected to check up on this stuff right now. But your source is feeding you paranoia and cypherbibble. Please take that into account when evaluating anything further from said source. __ Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf@mit.edu http://sethf.com