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Re: Columbian squib on Bell sentencing




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>>From The Columbian's web site at
><http://www.columbian.com/newsroom/topstories.html>:
>
>     'Assassination Politics' 
>     author gets 11 months
>
>       TACOMA, Wash. - James Dalton Bell, the Vancouver man who wrote an
>Internet essay entitled "Assassination Politics," was sentenced this
>morning to 11 months in prison and two to three years of tightly supervised
>probation.


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.

DCF
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