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Re: Canarypunk: Jim Bell in a coalmine
> Has anybody local to Jim Bell's stir gone to visit our incarcerated, um,
> gaming enthusiast, lately, just to see if he needs anything? Oh. Besides
> *that* of course. :-).
I had thought that Jims court appearance was to be sometime about a week
ago, what was he actually charged with? Has he appeared in court yet?
> That's because Bell is, however rediculous the offense or his behavior the
> first cypherpunk political prisoner. He's ours, folks, like it or not. It's
> time we faced it, and dealt with the problem accordingly.
Indeed, Jim is without doubt under arrest not on whatever cooked-up
charges they are holding him on, but because of AP and his "loon" type
possesion of carbon fibers etc. Jim certainly deserves our support, who
next otherwise? You?
> Admittedly, this is a distraction from the most important thing, which is
> writing code, but I bet that there are in fact cypherpunks-who-don't-code
> in Bell's neighborhood, and not necessarily even Friends of Jim, who would
> be happy to personally go see how Bell is doing and come back and tell us
> what happened. Think of it as part of the feedback loop for net.freedom. A
> trip into the coal mine with a canary cage.
Not enough cypherpunks ever get round to writing significant code, myself
included. I have lost count of the number of times I have sat down at a
workstation overnight, got some way into starting a project, then just
given up on it. I hope someone does go and see Jim, at the very least it
would be a pleasant gesture and give Jim the message that the cypherpunks
haven`t forgotten about him. Sure, It`s easy for me to talk, I can`t go
and see him, I`m hardly in his neighbourhood, but if you shrug your
shoulders and ignore his position it could be you next.
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