--- Jim Bell article archive: http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=ap-politics --- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 12:48:51 -0700 To: declanat_private From: John Young <jyaat_private> Subject: Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: a1084f3e4a7d600912221c3f35e98ee9 Declan, an essay by Deborah on cultural and homeland devastation in the USA which traces the rise of the national security mindset and the lucrative wasteland it has caused, drawing from multiple sources you will recognize: http://cartome.org/homeland.htm (72KB) "So, say goodnight to Joshua ..." Homeland Defense and the Prosecution of Jim Bell Deborah Natsios Cartome 8 June 2001 A sparsely attended trial which unfolded in Tacoma's US district courthouse the first week of April 2001 hardly seemed an event that might open a small but revealing view onto the shifting national security apparatus. But to outside observers following the criminal prosecution of Washington State resident Jim Bell, accused of stalking and intimidating local agents of the IRS, Treasury Department and BATF, the defendant was a symptomatic target, and the government's stated case against him only a fragment of a more complex campaign linked to the evolving landscape of national and homeland defense. In the government's estimation, Bell had placed its Pacific Northwest agents "in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury"1. But for some trial-watchers, the case against James Dalton Bell, 43, was underpinned by a constellation of factors that made him more than the disaffected neighbor projecting antigovernment bile. Bell had invited the government's fullest prosecutorial zeal because his technical skills placed him in more ambiguous terrain, that of untested gray zones within emerging national defense landscapes, which, by calling into question the impregnability of the national border, have been taking national security tactics incountry in unprecedented ways, deploying new rules of engagement to challenge national security threats within the US domestic interior. Sections: Homeland WarCoast Cypherpunks PosterBoy Joshua Tacoma Doppleganger BattlespaceSuburbia Holdout ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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