27 January 1999
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:03:53 -0800 From: Cindy Cohn <Cindy@MCGLASHAN.COM> Subject: Fwd: Urgent Help needed To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM I've been asked to forward this message to folks who may be able to help. >X-Originating-IP: [128.83.82.245] >From: "Jim Thomsen" <jimthomsen@hotmail.com> >Dear Sirs: > >The police have seized my computer with a search warrant under >wiretapping, then forced my clients to give up their computers and >charged me with 11 felonies of accessing my wife's email without >permission even though she gave me the password and we routinely >accessed each others emails. My wife went to several agencies promising >good press to make me a test case. > >To make matters worse, since I was in the US, they want to hold me for >extradition to Canada since my wife's Email Server was in Canada and to >date five federal and state police agencies have issued a all points >bulletin saying I am dangerous. They do not want my story to get out in >the press where I can show how they used even a toll taking electronic >tag to trace private citizens before any charges were ever made. > >A new district attorney intends to make me a test case according to my >attorney for a NYS law signed by the Governor a few months ago designed >to protect confidential email between attorneys and clients but the >statute also extended the privilege to doctors and "spouses". I am >still married, and no divorce action has been started by either party to >date. They claim I hacked into her system yet my computer they seized >proves I used the password she put in when she used my system often to >do her work at home. > >The 11 counts are one for each email I posted on the web which proved my >wife of less than eight months was having an affair with a nudist. >Since they could not attack me for my first amendment rights on the web >page which I kept a secret between me and my wife they have spent over >$30,000.00 and used the FBI, wiretaps on phones of my home and business >and clients, the Border Patrol, Canadian RMP and NYS police agencies. >Their hope was to have me surrender and then surprise me with other >charges and hold me over so I could not get bail for six months because >my wife forced me into bankruptcy. > >My wife, a associate producer for CTV W5 news in Toronto, has promised a >host of good press for the police to prosecute this case and make an >example of me. Although I hired a defense attorney, I did not >surrender when I found that they did not understand or have any >reasonable defense for this violation of my civil rights. > >I am hoping you can refer me to attorneys that might be interested in >stopping this tactic as it effects any of you who would ever read a >email noted to your wife in the same home you both share as a felony. >That could naturally apply to snail mail as well and I have about only >10k in funds to fight this battle from friends. This malicious false >prosecution has taken my work computer and put me out of business as I >am a government consultant and trainer. I have never been arrested >before and spent my life working for police so I know when they decide >to "dance" you around in the system you will pay the price and never get >your day in court. In the end, when you are broken, and ruined, they >offer you a deal for time served and a violation and get away with >punishing the next poor victim who has pissed off powerful political >forces. I have threatened no one and never committed any act of >violence. > >They are tracking my email even between me and my attorney and I am >moving around trying to develop a team and strategy before surrender in >another state where they have to extradite me and show some proof that a >crime was committed before I rot in a orange jumpsuit. > >My name is James M. Thomsen, DOB 04/22/55 and the charging agency is in >Buffalo NY, the Erie County Sheriffs Computer Crimes unit with Detective >Scott Patronis. The Erie County DA is Candy Vogel and they want to test >a new NYS law called Chapter 150. I cannot get adequate defense who >understands computers or wiretapping crime in the Buffalo Area. I >need your help in being able to mount a defense and hope you consider >this plea as urgent. > >To contact me: You can talk to Jennifer Carey at JLC Environmental >Consultants in NYC at 212-420-8119, or Ted Arts at 716-694-6390 who are >both trusted friends. My email is checked by PGP routine and you can >get a message to me to call you by sending it to >failsafealt@earthlink.net >or Jimthomsen@hotmail.com as a web based email. > >I bought and read the book Cyber Rights [by Mike Godwin] and did not see my >situation covered. Please… Can you Help? Or post a call for help in your >circles >or groups where I can find anyone else who might help? My snail >mail is Box 531, Grand Island NY 14072 but I get it only after it is >forwarded. > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > *************************************** Cindy A. 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