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IP: College student arrested after post about Calif state
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:29:16 -0400
Posted-Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:22:10 -0400 From: beeson () nyc pipeline com (Ann Beeson) Unfortunately, the story is not a rumor. The Sacramento Bee ("Internet Threat to Leslie Brings Arrest," 5/10/96) and The San Francisco Examiner both ran stories on the incident. The Bee said: "Jose Eduardo Saavedra was arrested Wednesday morning on a no-bail warrant based on felony charges filed in Sacramento alleging that he made terrorist threats and threatened a public offical, El Paso County Sheriff's Sgt. Don Marshall said." "The computer message posted March 6 read: 'Let's hunt Sen. Tim Leslie for sport . . . I think it would be great' if he 'were hunted down and skinned and mounted for our viewing pleasure.'" Sen. Leslie was quoted as saying, "I hope the message to the public is that it is not legal to abuse the Internet." Saavedra was tracked down by investigators working on information from his Internet provider, Primenet of Arizona. He refused to waive ex tradition proceedings, so California will have to execute a governor's warrant to get him to Sacramento for trial. The arrest raises obvious free speech and privacy concerns -- I'll post more details as I find them . . . Ann Beeson ACLU
Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner/editor, advocate & columnist (jwarren () well com)Some animal rights person on the net wrote that some politican should be
"skinned" for favoring hunting. The animal rights person then was arrested, as issuing a threat against a public official.
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