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echo: askacop
to: RD THOMPSON
from: CHARLES HUNTER
date: 1998-01-13 08:40:00
subject: Censorship

RT>I think that we need to punish the abusers of information, not the
  >producers of it.  If a book tells how to build a bomb and someone does
  >it, killing other people, the guilty party is the one who abused the
  >information by building the bomb and using it in an illegal manner.
This matter was recently discussed on the G. Gordon Liddy show, wherein
a prosecutor called in and argued with G. Gordon Liddy.  The prosecutor
took the position that if you create such a book and someone takes that 
book and blows up a building, then you as the author are also guilty of
the bombing and murders that occur.  Liddy took the position that 
merely writing a book that provided the instructions did not make one
culpable for the crimes committed by another, absent some 
conspiratorial involvement with the actors.
CHARLES HUNTER
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