Day #2: U.S. v. Jim Bell report from federal court in Tacoma

[Declan McCullagh]

I understand that Tanner asked them (I was out of the room at the time)
about whether they heard of FIJA. Nope.

-Declan

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:50:03PM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jim Burnes wrote:
> 
> > Were it not for a jury, Tanner could simply pronounce him summarily
> > guilty and be done with it.  Not to worry though, its unlikely 
> 
> 
> Of course, he may "instruct" them to deliver a guilty...
> 
> > the jury has any concept of their rights.
> 
> Rights?  Are you kidding?
>  
> > jim
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yours, 
> J.A. Terranson
> sysadmin at mfn.org
> 
> If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
> should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
> Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
> unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
> the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
> elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
> populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
> This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
> as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
> 
> The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
> associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
> those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
> first place...
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