Re: Why I think Jim Bell is getting railroaded

Hallam-Baker, whose posts always seem to read as if they were written by a government disinformant, wrote:
I would not depend on Bell to any extent in any circumstance to be reliable.
That's right. We should not support "wrong" people. So first H-B needs to demean Jim Bell personally.
And we should not support "bad" people, so H-B also needs to criminalize Jim Bell by vague innuendo.
Bell is not the kind of loon to stick one's neck out for.
Why risk your own neck supporting a loon?
Sure, maybe he didn't actually commit a crime, but he pushed the envelope, so he made his own troubles.
Before charging to the rescue its a good idea to make sure that you are rescuing the right person.
It's best to do nothing, because it's not you. It's a loon. It's someone who probably did something illegal, even if it wasn't what he was charged with (because we're all guilty of something). So now H-B has given the individual cypherpunks "reasons" not to support Jim Bell, or to protest his persecution. So what if Jim Bell is a cypherpunk to the core? So what if he is being prosecuted for speaking of things that many of us have spoken about and debated on the list? There are sounds of gunfire coming from our neighbor's house. Let's just close the window and hope that the trouble doesn't come our way. TruthMonger #-96
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