-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 03:03 PM 7/21/97 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote:
Perhaps. But he would have been tried in the media, and would probably have been transformed into "Terrorist Jim Bell" at the hands of the spin masters. In the end, even if he won in court, he would have been about as popular as OJ,
He would have had support among his counter cultural group (us). He wasn't accused of very serious acts like OJ.
Tell that to Robert "ream me again, please" Thomas of Amateur Action BBS fame, who wasn't even accused of being a potential terrorist, much less of trying to overthrow the entire government.
All the sedition cases of the last 60 years (2) have been lost by the Feds. Sedition is really hard to win (and of course JB wasn't accused of same).
Don't plead in political cases like Steve Jackson Games, PROMIS, Operation Sun Devil, etc... On the other hand, if you are accused of being one of the actual Four Horsemen, and the feds are holding press conferences on every channel with inflammatory voice-over editorials describing the alleged contents of your dwelling, some capitulation to the Barbarians may be necessary.
The "911 Document" prosecutions that grew out of Operation Sun Devil were for one of the Four Horsemen: terrorists. Evil Hackers who would destroy the 911 system. There were lots of inflammatory statements from the prosecutors but they really bit it when forced to go to trial. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM9XovoVO4r4sgSPhAQGTegP8CQIVLlAXW46MrtWQZbQPmLHaNROleY41 vHGXWuS5K8RYg3QCQbbzuz5xcarf8mOkvBChyn9ooE5uzWbVlcdrblUqb8Zh9CgI Zfuv0xQp0lHh2MygvtxFhKE7DBk/0owaFoyYYfdPmkwtM93+ZsknxV756rMT5VWA 7LvLnqteUxw= =TZFC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----