More on Bic-Assassins
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Fri Oct 30 12:59:27 PST 1998
Jim Choate:
What's the buzz in TX about the Bic-Assassins?
I spoke to a reporter at the Brownsville Herald who's
been covering the case and she says that local
folks think the men were entrapped by the government
with a sting.
Her story today and others previously at:
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com
She sent me a copy of the indictment which cites a
confidential "source" which set up the E-mail system
used to send threats to officials (the fink promised
the messages could not be traced - ouch!). The poor
saps were videotaped throughout their planning
and executing the threats, thanks to the informant's
arrangements:
http://jya.com/wge072198.htm
The informant is named in the court docket (which shows
that the defendants' attorneys put up a fierce fight
using First Amendment and other defenses discussed
here in regard to CJ):
http://jya.com/usa-v-wise.htm
The judge's rulings favored the government consistently,
though.
BTW, the prosecutor says that it made no difference that
nothing was ever done to act on the threats, no Bic-lighter
or bio-weapon was ever made, that it was enough under
the law for the threat to have been made. "Justice was
done," he said of the conviction.
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