Columbian squib on Bell sentencing
From The Columbian's web site at <http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/topstories.html>:
'Assassination Politics' author gets 11 months TACOMA, Wash. - James Dalton Bell, the Vancouver man who wrote an Internet essay entitled "Assassination Politics," was sentenced this morning to 11 months in prison and two to three years of tightly supervised probation. Bell's attorney objected to the probation conditions, which bar Bell from possessing a firearm or chemicals or entering a federal office without prior approval. He may not advocate violence or overthrow of the government. Bell, 39, has been in custody since May. In July, he pleaded guilty to obstructing Internal Revenue Service agents and using false Social Security numbers. Bell also admitted collecting the names and home addresses of IRS employees; proposing the "Assassination Politics" idea that targeted federal employees, and planting a stink bomb in the IRS's Vancouver office in March. -- Marcia Wolf, Columbian staff writer -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles@netbox.com | Export jobs, not crypto. http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | http://www.parrhesia.com
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From The Columbian's web site at <http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/topstories.html>:
'Assassination Politics' author gets 11 months
TACOMA, Wash. - James Dalton Bell, the Vancouver man who wrote an Internet essay entitled "Assassination Politics," was sentenced this morning to 11 months in prison and two to three years of tightly supervised probation.
Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already). They've got to be kidding. This is misdemeanor territory. I know he was chicken enough to plead but Milken pleaded and got 10 years! We're quaking in our boots out here. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNJKd94VO4r4sgSPhAQGYXAQAhuBPPWTUz65vSJLRTWwUZCocxMlUqWls CAQi5fiQiYjD8mWSYscX18g+duFpdGZAyfMUhMCz3s2MbekDuDyyoqg9M35bnUO/ WSf7n8xwWkGE8TNfWoNMa/qfehmxLQNFJzZyXSHQ08MxMQiMnQx7phtThVOTjqHr yAx8OEmKE0A= =xmE0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 11:24 AM -0700 12/13/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 09:38 AM 12/13/1997 -0500, frissell@panix.com wrote:
Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already). They've got to be kidding. This is misdemeanor territory. I know he was chicken enough to plead but Milken pleaded and got 10 years! We're quaking in our boots out here.
Does the 11 months include time served?
Bill, Bill, Bill.... That was not "time served," that was "psychological counselling." Bell was under the benficent care of mental health workers, seeking to allay his fears of the government. The six months he spent in psychological counelling were not prison time, just as the Soviet hospitals for dissidents were not actually prisons. With enough further care, Citizen-Unit Bell will _love_ Big Brother. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
At 09:38 AM 12/13/1997 -0500, frissell@panix.com wrote:
Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already). They've got to be kidding. This is misdemeanor territory. I know he was chicken enough to plead but Milken pleaded and got 10 years! We're quaking in our boots out here.
Does the 11 months include time served? Also, the Columbian story on Bell had a pointer to http://wire.ap.org/ which had its top story on a trade pact opening up relatively free trade in the financial services business. http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center?STORYOID=204c.12470&FRONTID=PACKAGE&EXTRA=BIZtrade Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
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