Mice Men 2000

 : cypherpunks@cyberpass.net

From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: The Second Cypherpunks Show Trial
Cc: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>


Part of the chilling of political speech in fin-de-siecle America is that
I'm going to wake up around 4 a.m. tomorrow morning regretting that I wrote
this and then sent it out where list.narcs like Jeff Gordon will add it to
my dossier.

Oh well. This is a long article, pretty much as I wrote it the first time.
If I agonize too much I'm likely to chicken out and not send it. The
chilling effect of show trials and hearsay evidence.

I pay all of my taxes. I'm not dumb. I don't _like_ paying taxes, and I
think the tax system will ultimately crumble under the onslaught of the
technologies we all understand, but I do still pay my taxes. They can't get
me on tax evasion, because I don't evade my taxes.

Nonetheless, I would not be at all surprised to find that my speaking out
on this despicable IRS/Treasury show trial results in either detailed
audits of my tax returns for the past N years, or, worse, a trumped-up
criminal tax fraud charge.

Like I said, oh well. With guys like Freeh and Reno in the service of a
rapist and perjurer, anything is possible.

Here it goes:

At 6:39 PM -0800 4/11/99, Greg Broiles wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Tim May wrote:
>
>> I do find it peculiar that Law Enforcement would freak out that the home
>> addresses of agents and judges, which are discoverable in _so_ many ways,
>> including phone books, voting records, property tax records, etc., are
>> published.
>>
>> This while they publicize *my* Social Security Number!!!
>
>We seem to be developing a system where there are three privacy castes -
>
>The first, bureacrats and cops and judges, who get special privacy rights,
>and whose privacy is jealously guarded; (* modulo the press, who will
>selectively invade others' privacy in a limited fashion, but will hold
>back enough information to maintain their monopoly)
>
>The second, ordinary people, who get as much privacy as they can keep;
>
>The third, criminals, whose addresses are placed on CD-ROMs and the
>Internet along with their pictures, and distributed by the state to
>encourage their ostracism and torment at the hands of people whose
>aggression/common sense ratio is low.
>
>I think the torment of CJ and Jim Bell is intended to make examples of
>people who treat someone from the first caste as if they were from a lower
>caste.

And the raids on their homes, with the newspapers and televison stations
alerted so they do a ride along and properly convey the images of the Evil
Babykilling Thought Criminals on the nightly news.

Not to mention the lack of prosecutions in the "FileGate" case...the White
House has an Enemies List with 1000 or so FBI files of their political
enemies. Run by a former bouncer, Craig Livingstone. So, clearly an illegal
use of confidential FBI information...and yet no prosecutions. Freeh and
Reno are lap dogs.

Greg's point about their being different castes is clearly shown.

Of course, what should one expect from a country run by a rapist? And a
liar, perjurer, subborner of perjury, tamperer with evidence, and seller of
defense secrets to China and who knows what other countries? One of my
neighbors is a Christian fundamentalist--he says we're clearly living in
the "End Times." Sometimes I think he has a point. (He's the one who told
me a chopper had been hovering over my house a while back; maybe an
innocent explanation, maybe some nervous Feebies checking out my place.)

So the Rapist in Chief announces one day he is "reading up on this here
place Kosovo." Good for him. Except that was Wednesday, and he launched the
Wag the Dog war the next day. "Yesterday I couldn't even spell the word
Kosovo, now I'm kicking their ass.")

But, nothing is surprising in this Alice in Wonderland/Matrix reality,
where a double murderer like O.J. Simpson got off and a harmless crank like
Jim Bell has been in jail for most of the past 2 years. Yeah, justice
American-style. Two years in jail for futzing around with stinkbombs and
using phony Social Security numbers, while murderers, rapists, and
subborners of perjury go free.

Meanwhile, the Government uses its powers to try to intimidate and silence.
Court documents show the U.S. Marshals Service spreading *hearsay* about
me, referring to bogus claims that "TIM MAY announced he would be murdering
Jim Bell's judge (known to be U.S. District Judge Franklin BURGESS or
Magistrate J. Kelly ARNOLD) on Friday at 4:00 p.m."

(this from the 11/25/97 report of Lisa Stephenson, Deputy U.S. Marshal.
This report was helpfully sent to other law enforcment agencies and the
judges, from marks made on the report...perhaps explaining some of the
weird things seen at that time, Thanksgiving of 1997.)

"Inspector GORDAN [sic] described MAY as being an anarchist/survivalist who
seems to spend much of his time communicating his beliefs via the Internet."

Fair enough...I can't complain about that characterization of me.

The IRS then helpfully provided my Social Security Number, now blasted
around the world in public record court documents. (So much for my SS
number only being used for Social Security and tax purposes and "NOT FOR
IDENTIFICATION." And so much for information I am compelled to give the IRS
on my tax returns being broadcast into court records. )

Gordon goes on to say:

"...and has repeatedly stated he would shoot any law enforcement officers
who attempted to arrest him."

This tissue of rumors and hearsay, combined with comments taken out of
context (the context generally being about self-defense in a midnight
raider situation, with black-clad ninjas bursting into one's home without
proper  presentation of a search warrant).

(Side note: This is an interesting legal/cyberspace issue. We are now in a
world where the equivalent of "living room conversations" amongst friends
are archived, searchable, essentially permanent, and browsable/searchable
by various parties. Including by law enforcement trying to stitch together
case mosaics. I average something like 5 posts per day. Less to the
Cypherpunks list in the last half year, for various reasons, and a lot more
in the first several years. So, roughly, about 1500-2000 articles of
varying lengths per year. Or about 10,000 or so in the six and a half years
of the Cypherpunks list. (Gulp!) Anyone who wants to search on any
topic--Sarin, guns, Abu Nidal, ATX-34 suitcase nukes, etc.--can find a lot
of stuff which looks "dangerous" when lifted out of context. List.narcs
must be in heaven.)

So, reports sent to various agencies--FBI, Marshals Service, IRS--have me
planning to kill a judge, stockpiling guns, and being opposed to the U.S.
Government. Well, only one of these is illegal. And that's the one that was
a fabrication, a rumor, an invented fantasy.

Where are the statements absolving me of this bogus claim that I planned to
whack a Federal judge? Where are the clarification of these rumors and
hearsay about what I and others plan to do, want to do, or expect to do?

Sure looks to me like they're setting the stage for a "Cypherpunks RICO
trial." Maybe with attention-grabbing raids on houses of the "gun nut
survivalist militia whackos." That will play well on t.v., especially in
time for the vote to ban crypto (which will probably sail through Congress
now that our fighting boys are about to start dying to keep Yugoslavia safe
for the Albania drug-running Muslim-Marxist KLA terrorists).

Show trials needs show criminals.

There's a lot more stuff that is in these documents, and in other places.
It appears that much more than just a trial of an eccentric minstrel
poet/satirist is going on. It looks like a innuendo, political speech,
hearsay, and "interviews" with some "helpful" folks, where they are asked
to speculate on the motivations and plans of others, is all being put
together by government agencies who have turned a blind eye to the FBI
files at the White House, to evidence of high treason by Clinton and Gore,
and of course to the travesties in Waco and Ruby Ridge and other places.

Oh, and it's just beginning. According to the judgment of William Geiger,
another show trial is being planned. This time for those who dared to
examine the "signature" evidence used to allegedly implicate Carl Johnson.

I have not closely followed the math of Adam Back's "signature collision"
work, reported on this list, included in the court documents, and recently
posted again (maybe with newer info--like I said, I haven't followed the
reasoning closely).

If a lawyer examines evidence, a la Dershowitz in the O.J. trial, it's
beyond reproach. But if Adam Back or William Geiger show that the alleged
digital signatures can arise in other ways than C.J. Parker/Johnson being
Toto/Truthmonger/DaveNull/etc., then this is called "obstruction."

Here's Geiger's assessment of why he was testifying before _another_ grand
jury:

At 1:55 PM -0800 4/8/99, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>Well, you all have been eagerly awaiting my report on my testimony before
>the Grand Jury in Seattle.
>
>What is the Grand Jury Looking into:
>====================================
>
>This is a new Grand Jury looking into the activities of CP List
>subscribers *after* CJ was arrested. It seems the MIB consider the
>following to be obstruction of their investigation/prosecution of CJ:
>
>- -- Series of posts concerning Toto's PGP Private Keys and passphrases.
>
>- -- Series of posts concerning Toto's ISP/E-Mail Accounts & passwords.
>

>- -- Posts made after CJ's arrest using using e-mail addresses & aliases
>allegedly used by CJ (TOTO, TRUTHMONGER, BUBA ROM DOS).
>

This is the equvalent of "looking into the activities of" O.J.'s chief
lawyer, Johnny Cochrane for his "if it does not fit, you must acquit" work
on the glove.

Except, of course, Cochrane is a lawyer. But let an expert witness examine
the evidence and come up with alternative explanations...ah, then it
becomes "obstruction."

(And make no mistake about it, folks on this list are every bit as much
world class experts on PGP and signature-spoofing as any glove or medical
experts called in the O.J. trial were. For which they should be compensated
as expert witnesses at their negotiated professional rate if they are asked
to give professional opinions, as opposed to testimony about their direct
observations.)

If Adam Back didn't have to fear his being arrested (see Adam's comments
about what Geiger told him), he would make a good witness for C.J.'s
lawyer(s) to call to impeach the testimony of the government's expert
witnesses. He could presumably demonstrate directly the methods.

Odd that all of the Cypherpunks are being called by the Feds. Does CJ have
no lawyer?

Even odder that so many Cypherpunks have freely given interviews with
various investigators, even offering their opinions as to the motivations
of others.

A show trial. With too many Cypherpunks helping to hang the accused...and
perhaps ultimately many others.

Did CJ do what he is accused of doing? I don't know. I am not even familiar
with what all the precise charges are...something about death threats to
judges, to Bill Gates, and something about some shotgun shells and a book
of matches with the word "Bomb" scrawled on the outside of a bag of some
kind. Sounds bizarre, if true. But it has to be proved based on evidence
beyond a reasonable doubt, not based on hearsay about what "Tim May" was
alleged to have promised, about the gun collections of list members, and
all this other hearsay and innuendo.

I am not making any claims about whether C.J is Toto is Human Gus-Peter is
Dave Null is Bubba Rom Dos, etc. I never met the guy. I don't recall even
replying to him, though I may have replied tersely to some of his rants,
before I started deleting them all. I deleted nearly all of his "Circle of
Eunuchs" (and later series, like "Space Aliens Ate My Drugs") stuff unread,
especially after it got so repetitive. Most of what I now know about his
alleged activities and his associates, his travels, his medications, etc.,
I know from reading recent items on the list. Oh, and the court documents,
which I just spent a couple of hours reading in more detail than the
initial glance I took a few weeks ago. The court documents are eye opening.

But Adam and William and probably others have much to fear. A second show
trial, this one on "conspiracy to obstruct," or somesuch. No wonder Jeff
Gordon was asking William Geiger if Adam Back is ever in the U.S. Customs
could nab him at the port of entry.

(I guess Marsha Clark and Chris Darden wish they could have gotten
Cochrane, Dershowitz, Bailey, and that Santa Clara law professor on this
kind of conspiracy charge. Hey, bring in the RICO laws! "By challenging our
evidence, even though there is no gag order on the trial, you have
obstructed justice. Bailiff, take them away.")

And if I wasn't already on their list to be called, for whatever reason,
then probably speaking out here, on the eve of their first show trial, will
probably get me added to the list of conspirators.

Meanwhile, the Rapist in Chief has his stacks of FBI dossiers on his
political opponents, he has his slush fund from selling ICBM guidance
secrets to the Red Chinese, and he's got himself a Merrye Little War in the
Balkans so he can rebuild his legacy on the burned-out villages and
scorched bodies of Yugoslavia.

So they go after a weird guy who may or may not have exhibited a form of
"literary Tourette's" but who basically did no damage to anyone. Some
system, eh?

Time to reformat America's hard drive and start over, I say.


--Tim May (I'd PGP sign my post, except my Eudora-PGP plug-in stopped
working a while back, and, besides, they'd probably cite the use of PGP as
part of the conspiracy charge)




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