Re: Gary Burnore's PGP-Signed Confession

[Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>]

Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> wrote:

> > The following is a copy of a PGP-signed post that noted remailer hater
> > and anti-privacy zealot Gary Burnore made over a year ago.  It helps 
> > explain the basis for Burnore's attack on the Huge Cajones Remailer in 
> > 1997, in a failed attempt to out the whistleblower who reported his 
> > activities to the victim's mother and school officials.
>
> I fail to see why anybody, other than some nutcase zealot or the "child
> molestation" industry would give a damn if some guy kissed a 17 year old
> girl or not. If all they did is kiss, what's the big deal?

I think you just hit the nail on the head ... "If all they did is kiss".

The point is, whatever Gary did was against the law and he knew it.  That's
why he went ballistic when someone anonymously tipped off the girl's
mother and high school principal.  That explains his months-long
campaign to harass Jeff Burchell and the Huge Cajones Remailer into
outing the anonymous sender of that message, even to the point of getting
his girlfriend Belinda Bryan to impersonate a lawyer and demand that Jeff
turn over the (non-existent) remailer logs to Gary and DataBasix.

You do bring up a good point, though.  It's utterly unbelievable that
a man should be prosecuted as a sex offender for doing nothing more than
kissing a willing, sane, and sober 17 year old girl.  If that were a
crime, the vice squad could have a field day at most high school proms.
So the question is -- is that ALL he did?

Afterwards, Gary decided to seek psychiatric counselling.  For merely
kissing a girl?  And the psychiatrist dutifully reported it to the police,
which he'd only have been required to do if he had reason to believe a
sex crime had occured,  And the police arrested him, and the district
attorney prosecuted, and he was convicted and sentenced.  Gary makes the
charges sound so bogus, yet he chose to become a convicted sex offender 
rather than challenge them in court.  Why?  If that had been the case,
and it had been me, I'd have pled not guilty and let the DA make a fool
of himself trying to prosecuting me for the kiss.  I'd also have
documented everything and made sure the DA's opponent knew all abut it
when he/she came up for re-election.  And, to top it all off, part of
Burnore's sentence was to pay $11,000 in restitution for his victim's
therapy!  For "just a kiss"?  And Burnore didn't even contest THAT?

Again, the relevance to Cypherpunks is that this incident led to Gary
Burnore's harassment of one of the most reliable remailers that existed
in 1997, and Jeff finally had enough of the harassment and chose to
shut it down.