denial of service and government rights
jim bell
jimbell at pacifier.com
Sun Dec 1 11:48:18 PST 1996
At 09:25 PM 11/30/96 -0500, Tired.Fighter at dhp.com wrote:
>On 30 Nov 96 at 13:10, Black Unicorn wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Greg Broiles wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> > I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be true for a
>> > computer. Fed.Rul.Crim.Pro. 41(b)(1) allows the seizure
>> > (but seizure is not forfeiture) of "property that
>> > constitutes evidence of the commission of a
>> > criminal offense".
>>
>> It is true of computers.
>> Take the case of Ripco (the Chicago BBS raided in the
>> SunDevil raids back when).
>>
>> I don't think "Dr. Ripco" has yet gotten his equipment
>> back. I don't know for sure, but what I do know is
>> that 5 years after the raid, he still had certainly
>> not gotten anything back.
Unicorn has a long history of reciting government abuses, but then failing
to provide any sort of answer to them. My solution (AP: "Assassination
Politics") would make such abuse fatal.
Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com
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