At 6:54 AM 3/26/96, blanc wrote:

From: Timothy C. May

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You're a felon? For real?

Yes. .................................................................

Ah, yes - Tim the Indecent, vis-a-vis X-onomous signatures. Sheut. I thought maybe you'd done something really interesting.

Oh, I may have done some pretty juicy things that are felonies in some states (maybe even states I was living in at the time)...plus I know a whole lot of folks who feloniously violate our nation's "dietary laws" nearly every day (eating the wrong things seems to be the common denominator). Similarly, various popular sexual practices--even some mentioned favorably in the Bible--are felonies in many U.S. states. I've kept the CP list copied on my replies to Blanc because it makes a larger point: every time the nation felonizes a new set of common behaviors, it risks making more and more people felons and thus reduces respect for the law (the real law, about real crimes). This happened during Prohibition (for you foreigners, this was America's experiment with outlawing alcohol consumption), when the law was flouted by even cops and elected officials (in "speakeasies") and when the La Cosa Nostra really got its big boost. Not being one who worries about his standing amongst "the neighbors," I casually mentioned to one of them that I doubted I'd have to serve on jury duty, due to being a felon. He looked appropriately surprised; I haven't bothered to tell him that while I'm indeed a felon under the Communications Decency Act (Fuck Exon), I haven't yet been charged nor have I been convicted. (One is a felon when one has committed a felony....look it up. One is a _convicted_ felon when one has been convicted. But the felony has still happened.) The dictionary doesn't make it clear what happens to the status of a felony when the law is changed and the act is no longer a felony. (If the CDA is overturned, then I guess my actions in saying "Fuck Exon" will no longer be felonies. But as it stands now, they are indeed felony vioations of the CDA. Hence, I am a felon.) --Tim May THE X-ON CONGRESS: INDECENT COMMENT ON AN INDECENT SUBJECT, by Steve Russell, American Reporter Correspondent....You motherfuckers in Congress have dropped over the edge of the earth this time... "the sorriest bunch of cocksuckers ever to sell out the First Amendment" or suggesting that "the only reason to run for Congress these days is to suck the lobbyists' dicks and fuck the people who sent you there," ....any more than I care for the language you shitheads have forced me to use in this essay...Let's talk about this fucking indecent language bullshit.