One thing about Bell's case...

[petro]

>It seems to me that charging Bell for 'stalking' in relation to the
>collection of public documents violates his 1st Amendment rights with
>respect to 'press'.

	It's probably the showing up on the door step that got him in trouble.

	Or at least that gave the government the excuse they needed 
to put him on trial.
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