Also, while we're at it: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011231/en/potter_book_burning_2.html New Mexico Church Protests Potter ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - As hundreds protested nearby, a church group burned Harry Potter and other books. Jack Brock, the Christ Community Church founder and pastor, said the books burned Sunday were ``a masterpiece of satanic deception.'' ``These books teach children how they can get into witchcraft and become a witch, wizard or warlock,'' Brock said. Members sang ``Amazing Grace'' as they threw Potter books, plus some other books and magazines, into the fire. Across the street, protesters chanting ``Stop burning books'' stretched in a line a quarter of a mile long. [...] --- Politech archive on the case of Vanessa Leggett: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=leggett --- http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1197563 Jailed writer to be freed Held 5 months for refusal to turn over her research By ROSANNA RUIZ and DALE LEZON Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Jailed writer Vanessa Leggett will be released this morning after spending more than five months in a federal detention center for refusing to turn over her research about a 1997 slaying in River Oaks. Leggett, 33, has been detained since July 20 after she refused to release information from confidential sources to a grand jury investigating Robert Angleton, a Houston bookie whose wife, Doris, was slain in 1997. [...] Mike DeGeurin, Leggett's lawyer, was able to spring his client when a motion he filed for her immediate release was granted late Thursday by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon. The order, which was sealed, requires Leggett to be released by 10 a.m. today. In his motion, DeGeurin argued that his client could not legally be detained after today when the grand jury was set to conclude its investigation. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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