Bad news from Judge Richey

E. ALLEN SMITH EALLENSMITH at ocelot.Rutgers.EDU
Thu Apr 4 23:35:39 PST 1996


From: tcmay at got.net (Timothy C. May)
>At 3:28 AM 3/26/96, jim bell wrote:

>>I realize that this may appear to be a rather disrespectful tactic, but have
>>you considered reminding the judge that if you are not allowed to profit by
>>exporting encryption that the government doesn't want to see exported,
>>you'll just have to make money in some other way, and this may lead you to
>>talk to Jim Bell about implementing a program using encryption that doesn't
>>_need_ to be exported...legally anyway.

>Whoahh! Hold on there, Jimbo! You're crossing the line.

>You're coming perilously close to actually calling for the killing of a
>federal judge. My recollection is that a couple of folks have been arrested
>and charged for calling for the killing of judges.

	Umm... one would guess that a federal judge would be against the
whole Assasination Politics idea, whether or not he himself became a target.
I doubt that pointing AP out would do any good... but one can point out to a
judge that, say, a mugger might mug him next without being threatening.
	-Allen 






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