CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

[Jodi Hoffman]

Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> [A veteran free speech activist in Cambridge, Mass. sent me this. Any
> offers of mirroring should go to the list, where I assume they'll be duly
> forwarded. I wonder how long the HTML files in question here would last on
> a Geocities/etc account. --Declan]
> 
> ---
> 
> Hi Declan,
> 
> I know you're aware of the case of Curley v. NAMBLA, which has very
> serious First Amendment implications. Jeffrey Curley was a 10-year-old
> who was murdered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in October of 1997. The
> parents are alleging that the murderers were driven by NAMBLA literature
> in general and specifically by the contents of NAMBLA's web site. After
> the suit was filed in May of this year, the current NAMBLA web site was
> taken down.
> 
> Frisoli, the Curley lawyer, has been making very outrageous and false
> statements about what was on the web site. Because the media has no
> access to the site, no one can contradict him. A vicious media war is
> now being waged against the ACLU and other free-expression advocates for
> defending freedom of expression in this case. Few reporters seem even
> interested in finding out the contents of NAMBLA literature or the
> contents of the web site as of 10/97. But even if a fair-minded reporter
> did have this interest, he or she would be out of luck. Printed material
> from NAMBLA is difficult to find. Members of NAMBLA will speak to the
> press only under conditions of strict anonymity because they fear for
> their lives. And the web site is not accessible.
> 
> I am not a NAMBLA member, but I believe that the First Amendment applies
> to them. I have obtained the web files as of 10/97. I don't wish to put
> them up myself for a variety of reasons. First of all, my ISP might make
> me take them down. Also, I am involved in another case which I don't
> want tarred with the NAMBLA brush. There is no court injunction against
> the publication of the materials. But a site outside the US might be
> best in any case.
> 
> Anyway, if you can help me find someone to take the files and put them
> up, please let me know.

	I knew there was a reason I printed out NAMBLA's website 
throughout the years.  Maybe I should contact this child's parents as 
well as their attorney.  Maybe you should do the same.  Maybe you really 
are a member of NAMBLA.  It certainly sounds like it.  I wonder if you 
would tell the parents to their face how important you think it is to 
preserve the information put out by the people who helped cause their 
son to be murdered, rather than doing something to help prevent it from 
happening again.
-- 
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the accomplice of liars and forgers." - Charles Peguy
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