Re: Canarypunk: Jim Bell in a coalmine

>From Robert Hettinga:

>Well, if he's still in there, and Vince Cate is up for it, we can probably
>give you a scholarship, which, for FC98, means we let you in the door free.
[.....]   Mostly it's to show that I, and maybe Vince, if
>not the rest of the FC++ organization, realize that there, for the grace of
>the net, go us, too, someday, if we don't do something to show that people
>like Jim Bell, however loony or repugnant their ideas are to us personally,
>are not alone.
........................................................................

I was kidding, but that's awful nice of you, even if I still must pay for
the rest of it.   Yes, I'll still go visit JimBob - I'll have to find out
about his location, hours, etc.    Again, if any of you in this area would
like to make the trip or meet there, perhaps meeting later as well for
dinner and scholaryly discussion on the perils of free speech and such,
please let me know.   

    ..
Blanc
    ..
Blanc

you might consider a webpage that reports on visits, status,
and so forth.

I've always thought his AP stuff silly, but I can't help
but think it had somethng to do with his arrest and 
his prosecution.  Perhaps the govt doesn't have a good
silliness filter.
MacN

On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Blanc wrote:

> >From Robert Hettinga:
> 
> >Well, if he's still in there, and Vince Cate is up for it, we can probably
> >give you a scholarship, which, for FC98, means we let you in the door free.
> [.....]   Mostly it's to show that I, and maybe Vince, if
> >not the rest of the FC++ organization, realize that there, for the grace of
> >the net, go us, too, someday, if we don't do something to show that people
> >like Jim Bell, however loony or repugnant their ideas are to us personally,
> >are not alone.
> ........................................................................
> 
> I was kidding, but that's awful nice of you, even if I still must pay for
> the rest of it.   Yes, I'll still go visit JimBob - I'll have to find out
> about his location, hours, etc.    Again, if any of you in this area would
> like to make the trip or meet there, perhaps meeting later as well for
> dinner and scholaryly discussion on the perils of free speech and such,
> please let me know.   
> 
>     ..
> Blanc
>     ..
> Blanc
> 
>

On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Mac Norton wrote:

> you might consider a webpage that reports on visits, status,
> and so forth.

Or at least how many come from .gov and .mil sites.

> I've always thought his AP stuff silly, but I can't help
> but think it had somethng to do with his arrest and 
> his prosecution.  Perhaps the govt doesn't have a good
> silliness filter.

This is almost certain.

They also do not have much of a connection to a good clueserver either.  

A semi-humorous example of this was when they decided to have then vice
president Quayle in a hotel next to a Science Fiction convention.  The SF
con had to deal with a huge host of SS agents trying to figure out what
was happening and if there was a "threat" for them to stomp on.  (They
were very easy to spot.  They were the ones wearing the suits with the
pink dress shirts. (I guess lack of fashion sense is part of the job.))

At least on role playing game was disrupted by agents questioning the
participants in an overly serious manner.  (They were playing Top Secret
(a spy RPG) and had a scenerio involving assasinations.)

There were many of the SS agents there who *STILL* had no clues by the end
of the weekend...

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On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Blanc wrote:

> >From Robert Hettinga:
> 
> >Well, if he's still in there, and Vince Cate is up for it, we can probably
> >give you a scholarship, which, for FC98, means we let you in the door free.
> [.....]   Mostly it's to show that I, and maybe Vince, if
> >not the rest of the FC++ organization, realize that there, for the grace of
> >the net, go us, too, someday, if we don't do something to show that people
> >like Jim Bell, however loony or repugnant their ideas are to us personally,
> >are not alone.
> ........................................................................
> 
> I was kidding, but that's awful nice of you, even if I still must pay for
> the rest of it.   Yes, I'll still go visit JimBob - I'll have to find out
> about his location, hours, etc.    Again, if any of you in this area would
> like to make the trip or meet there, perhaps meeting later as well for
> dinner and scholaryly discussion on the perils of free speech and such,
> please let me know.   

Does any one know if he can have visitors?  Posting the hours he can see
people would be helpful.  (Also what we can and cannot bring him to read
and/or use.)

I might be able to get a bunch of the Portland crowd to make a weekend
trip up there.

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