-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199711150145.CAA24285@basement.replay.com>, on 11/15/97 at 02:45 AM, Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> said:
Paul Bradley writes:
Judge David Selwood today sentenced 3 writers for the magazine "Green Anarchist" to 3 years imprisonment each for their articles in the magazine which he concluded incited others to break the law. The magazine contained diaries for the previous months animal rights activism events and contained articles generally favourable to the cause of animal liberation.
Another judge who has richly earned the death penalty.
Another example of the violent rhetoric which goes without comment on this list.
The death penalty is completely inappropriate for this kind of crime. It should be reserved for the most serious of criminal actions, the most egregious murders, terrorism, genocide.
An appropriate punishment for a judge who violates his oath of office and sentences someone wrongly to prison would be a prison sentence for the judge himself, some multiple of the unjust sentence.
Calling for the death penalty for crimes which do not themselves involve killing only cheapens life. Before long you too will support shooting graffiti vandals and nuking London.
Well I can't say much for the UK AFAIK they have no constitutional protections of free speech. Here in Amerika any elected offical or government employee found to have willfully violated the Constution of the United States of America should be put to death. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNG8XzY9Co1n+aLhhAQHTegQAgqBqZoTC3Q3cJtA1Kvo3HHHqrnnXwwwJ sHC2qvhz6NjUg1JKKjvjNrt9CLm89UnqTsULs8xsJH3SZs8CgL6i0e35w2ABXABF lL6eEErwh4hHW9y/s4ZzhEYUuf3AWlu1yoBtcSz6WMXf20t6I234iw3BfZ+j9UZ1 NerDQ3J6IQw= =kAK6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----