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to: CHARLES HUNTER
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-01-13 18:54:00
subject: Censorship

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