At 7:43 PM +0200 5/23/97, Anonymous wrote:
I guess the only *real* solution is to get rid of the thugs.
Possibly the real solution is not to do stupid things.
The "Rodney King" effect here is amazing. Jim Bell was not quite a model citizen. I don't think most of us would consider stinkbombing office buildings normal behavior. But that was 13 years ago, and compared to what the feds did to him, Jim Bell comes out looking like an angel. All things are relative.
The stink bomb charge that would stick would be the March 17th event, if this is proven to be Bell's doing. I would've thought this would be "malicious mischief," at most. People who've done far, far, far worse are left unprosecuted in every major jurisdiction in this country. The meat thrown to the media--the usual AP stuff, mixed in with "radical libertarian" descriptions--is just to make the case more media-interesting.
PS For the benefit of our non-technical readers, a bell jar is a glass dome used in vacuum experiments. AFAIK, you can't make a stink bomb in one. :)
Huh? Bell jars, to be pedantic, don't have to involve vacuums, obviously. And a stink bomb could certain fill even a vacuum jar. (Maybe the stink would not be smelled, a la Bishop Berkeley, though...) In any case, more of an allusion. Perhaps even to Plath. Or to the Marines, aka Jarheads. Or to Bell's Theorem. Or to.... --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."