http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43771,00.html
Online Cincy Cop Threats Probed
By Declan McCullagh (declan_at_wired.com)
2:00 a.m. May 15, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Ohio police are investigating alleged threats posted to
the website of a journalists' collective directed against Steven
Roach, the policeman whose shooting of an unarmed black man led to
riots in Cincinnati last month.
A Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor has sent the Ohio Valley
Independent Media Center (IMC) a subpoena for any records relating to
a post last week titled "Steve Roach, dead man walking."
The only problem: The admitted author of the post, a self-proclaimed
anarchist who uses the alias proffr_at_fuckmicrosoft.com, lives in rural
central Victoria, Australia.
In a telephone interview, "proffr" said he is trying to further the
ideas of Jim Bell, author of the controversial Assassination Politics
essay who was convicted in April of two counts of threatening federal
officials.
Bell's essay, written about five years ago, is a thought experiment
describing a system designed to intimidate lawless police and
politicians by outlining a method through which they could be
assassinated. Proffr calls his version Operation Soft Drill, a term
Bell also used, and says he wants to intimidate police and corporate
polluters into respecting human rights.
"I'm here out in the open," proffr said. "I'm putting forth the basic
James Bell dream, which is that people can put forth freedom on the
Internet. This is a tool that was lying on the ground and I picked it
up."
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