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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: GUILTY! Day 6 of Washington State Cypherpunk Tri
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:46:46 -0400
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: GUILTY! Day 6 of Washington State Cypherpunk Trial
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19239.html
Guilty Verdict for Cypherpunk
by Chris Stamper
5:30 p.m. 20.Apr.99.PDT
TACOMA, Washington -- A federal judge
on Tuesday ruled an itinerant musician
and cypherpunk was guilty of threatening
government officials and Bill Gates.
"There's a line between free speech and
criminal speech," said US District Judge
Robert J. Bryan. He declared Carl Johnson
guilty on four counts brought against him
by the Internal Revenue Service and the
Justice Department.
The charges stem from a series of
freewheeling essays posted last year to
the cypherpunks mailing list, an online
discussion area populated by an anarchic
collection of encryption and privacy
advocates.
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