Re: Columbian squib on Bell sentencing

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 11:24 AM -0700 12/13/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 09:38 AM 12/13/1997 -0500, frissell@panix.com wrote:
>>Eleven *whole* months (8 months served already).  They've got to be
>>kidding.
>>This is misdemeanor territory.  I know he was chicken enough to plead but
>>Milken pleaded and got 10 years!  We're quaking in our boots out here.
>
>Does the 11 months include time served?

Bill, Bill, Bill....

That was not "time served," that was "psychological counselling." Bell was
under the benficent care of mental health workers, seeking to allay his
fears of the government.

The six months he spent in psychological counelling were not prison time,
just as the Soviet hospitals for dissidents were not actually prisons.

With enough further care, Citizen-Unit Bell will _love_ Big Brother.

--Tim May




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