Declan McCullagh and prosecutions
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Apr 3 09:30:11 PDT 2001
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Tim May wrote:
> > Which may actually be one of the main reasons he is being called,
> > actually. What a great way for Big Brother to silence a leading
> > Cypherpunk-friendly journalist.
At 01:52 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> I think I'm finally getting the answer to my question ...
You are kind of slow on the uptake.
The government has been using the judicial process itself as a punishment
for many years, most infamously the PGP grand jury.
These subpeonas are a form of harassment. I curb my speach not for fear
that I will be prosecuted, but for fear that I will be summoned as a
witness, in the course of investigating a supposed conspiracy.
Recollect the great indignation during the fifties about the way the
government used an investigation of an entirely real conspiracy, a
conspiracy directed by a hostile foreign power seeking the destruction of
the US, as a punishment against those of certain political views.
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