At 02:38 PM 6/22/97 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:

Admittedly, this is a distraction from the most important thing, which is writing code, but I bet that there are in fact cypherpunks-who-don't-code in Bell's neighborhood, and not necessarily even Friends of Jim, who would be happy to personally go see how Bell is doing and come back and tell us what happened. Think of it as part of the feedback loop for net.freedom. A trip into the coal mine with a canary cage.

Yeah, I know. It's me making work for someone else. Nonetheless: Anyone out there want to do this? ............................................................................ .....

I live about an hour's drive from Tacoma. I'm not too enthused about taking such a lengthy trip just to go see how Mr. Private Assassinations is doing, but - taking after your own methods, Robert - I'd be glad to do it in exchange for a trip to Anguilla next Feb. :>) (You know, it is true that having friends in times of stress, like when you're sitting in jail, is good for the soul, but on the other hand one must give credit to Jim for his having created his own situation. He did provoke the government types into suspicions about him and he must have known that distributing his AP ideas, containing such apparent potential for being translated into reality, would make him a grand target. When you do things like that, you ought to consider what you're going to do when "they" come after you. He afterall is quite aware of the atmosphere in which we live and how fragile is the relationship (if it can be called that) which civilians have with the local military saviors which daily protect us from ourselves.) Having said that, I'll consider the possibility, if visitors are allowed on weekends. Perhaps several cpunks could go (if anyone else around here interested? (Wei, Joel, I know you're just dying to go <g>)), if more than one visitor at a time is allowed . .. Blanc