Re: Canarypunk: Jim Bell in a coalmine
From Robert Hettinga:
Well, if he's still in there, and Vince Cate is up for it, we can probably give you a scholarship, which, for FC98, means we let you in the door free. [.....] Mostly it's to show that I, and maybe Vince, if not the rest of the FC++ organization, realize that there, for the grace of the net, go us, too, someday, if we don't do something to show that people like Jim Bell, however loony or repugnant their ideas are to us personally, are not alone. ........................................................................
I was kidding, but that's awful nice of you, even if I still must pay for the rest of it. Yes, I'll still go visit JimBob - I'll have to find out about his location, hours, etc. Again, if any of you in this area would like to make the trip or meet there, perhaps meeting later as well for dinner and scholaryly discussion on the perils of free speech and such, please let me know. .. Blanc .. Blanc
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Blanc wrote:
From Robert Hettinga:
Well, if he's still in there, and Vince Cate is up for it, we can probably give you a scholarship, which, for FC98, means we let you in the door free. [.....] Mostly it's to show that I, and maybe Vince, if not the rest of the FC++ organization, realize that there, for the grace of the net, go us, too, someday, if we don't do something to show that people like Jim Bell, however loony or repugnant their ideas are to us personally, are not alone. ........................................................................
I was kidding, but that's awful nice of you, even if I still must pay for the rest of it. Yes, I'll still go visit JimBob - I'll have to find out about his location, hours, etc. Again, if any of you in this area would like to make the trip or meet there, perhaps meeting later as well for dinner and scholaryly discussion on the perils of free speech and such, please let me know.
Does any one know if he can have visitors? Posting the hours he can see people would be helpful. (Also what we can and cannot bring him to read and/or use.) I might be able to get a bunch of the Portland crowd to make a weekend trip up there. alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.
you might consider a webpage that reports on visits, status, and so forth. I've always thought his AP stuff silly, but I can't help but think it had somethng to do with his arrest and his prosecution. Perhaps the govt doesn't have a good silliness filter. MacN On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Blanc wrote:
From Robert Hettinga:
Well, if he's still in there, and Vince Cate is up for it, we can probably give you a scholarship, which, for FC98, means we let you in the door free. [.....] Mostly it's to show that I, and maybe Vince, if not the rest of the FC++ organization, realize that there, for the grace of the net, go us, too, someday, if we don't do something to show that people like Jim Bell, however loony or repugnant their ideas are to us personally, are not alone. ........................................................................
I was kidding, but that's awful nice of you, even if I still must pay for the rest of it. Yes, I'll still go visit JimBob - I'll have to find out about his location, hours, etc. Again, if any of you in this area would like to make the trip or meet there, perhaps meeting later as well for dinner and scholaryly discussion on the perils of free speech and such, please let me know.
.. Blanc .. Blanc
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Mac Norton wrote:
you might consider a webpage that reports on visits, status, and so forth.
Or at least how many come from .gov and .mil sites.
I've always thought his AP stuff silly, but I can't help but think it had somethng to do with his arrest and his prosecution. Perhaps the govt doesn't have a good silliness filter.
This is almost certain. They also do not have much of a connection to a good clueserver either. A semi-humorous example of this was when they decided to have then vice president Quayle in a hotel next to a Science Fiction convention. The SF con had to deal with a huge host of SS agents trying to figure out what was happening and if there was a "threat" for them to stomp on. (They were very easy to spot. They were the ones wearing the suits with the pink dress shirts. (I guess lack of fashion sense is part of the job.)) At least on role playing game was disrupted by agents questioning the participants in an overly serious manner. (They were playing Top Secret (a spy RPG) and had a scenerio involving assasinations.) There were many of the SS agents there who *STILL* had no clues by the end of the weekend... alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.
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