Ed ***mings.
> The Secret Service has locked Ed ***mings up with violent criminals
for
> nearly a year, solely because of his possession of written material,
> software, and bits of hardware. In other words, not much at all.
First, some background:
Ed ***mings was on probation for removing batteries from a tone dialer.
> All of this stems from an incident years ago when ***mings and two
> friends were being questioned by a Northampton County police officer.
>
> He had asked them about a tone dialer they had and, while he went into
> another room, somebody removed the batteries from the dialer. They
were
> not under arrest and had not been instructed not to do this. However,
> based on this, ***mings was charged with "tampering with evidence"
even
> though there was no proof that he had been the one to do it. ***mings
> refused to say who did and pleaded no contest. He was fined and that
> should have been the end of it.
Then it happened, in March 1995:
A Haverford Town****p Police officer arrested Ed ***mings.
His crime?
Talking with African Americans in a parking lot. A heavily monitored
group...
The *sole* reason Ed ***mings was targeted was because he was talking to
black people.
What was he arrested for? Suspicion of drug dealing. (I'm guessing
here.)
Did he have any drugs? None.
How do you arrest someone for drugs when they don't have any? I don't
know.
What did he have? Electronic components: crystals.
No, not Star****p Dilithium Crystals; just radio shack components.
Haverford Police put out word they had Ed ***mings; the Federal government
responded that they wanted th
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