Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

[Duncan Frissell]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 measl at mfn.org wrote:

> This is the case I had in mind when I made my recent assertion that
> thought==action in today's "court".  How can anyone see this case, and not
> conclude otherwise?  This dude is going to spend a long time in stir, for
> a *pure Thought Crime*.
>
>
> Yours,
>
> J.A. Terranson
> sysadmin at mfn.org
>


To which the mentally retarded twit plead guilty.  If you plead guilty
(like Michael Milken or Jim Bell 1) you don't get to challange the
prosecution.

People who plead guilty in political cases like these get more time (on
average) than those who contest them.

Kipling had some advice for these sorts of cases:

Dane-Geld

A.D. 980-1016

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
  To call upon a neighbour and to say:--
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
  Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
  And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
  And then  you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
  To puff and look important and to say:--
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the
          time to meet you.
  We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
  But we've  proved it again and  again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
  You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
  For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
  You will find it better policy to say:--

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
  No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
  And the nation that pays it is lost!"

DCF