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Though he concedes that many might find his stockpile of 25,000 photos featuring S&M and hard-core sex distasteful, Thomas insists he violated no laws. "I don't feel I committed a crime because I didn't offend anybody but a postal inspector in Memphis," he says, referring to the government official who launched the investigation. Thomas also faces charges in Salt Lake City of distributing images of naked children, but he insists those images aren't sexually explicit. "They are from nudist colonies," he says. "Many of them are family snapshots...
...prank to remind them who we are," reads a letter sent to The New York Times and authenticated by the FBI last night. "But, no, we haven't tried to plant a bomb on an airline (recently)." His joke was lost on the state of California, where thousands of postal workers continued to comb through parcels, diverting most airmail packages to ground delivery, while wary airline passengers were forced to stand in long lines and present identification. Los Angeles International Airport handles nearly 1 million passengers a week. Police experts believethat the Unabomber envies the publicity surroundingthe Oklahoma City bombing...
...past:"We don't think it is necessary for us to do any public soul-searching in this letter. But we will say that we are not insensitive to the pain caused by our bombings." The joke was lost on the state of California, where thousands of postal workers combed through nearly every parcel and wary airline passengers -- if they ventured out at all -- were forced to stand in long lines and present identification. Officials, though relieved by the letter, were still posting new officers at Los Angeles International Airport, which handles nearly 1 million passengers a week...
...result of the scare, the U.S. Postal Service has halted all mail processed in Northern California -- believed to be the Unabomber's base of operations -- as scores of postal inspectors check as many packages as possible. "After the last bombing, they said it was impossible to inspect all the mail," says TIME San Franciso reporter Jeff Green. "But this latest threat has raised the stakes, so they're making the best effort they...
...report urges that free speech protection ofU.S. mail be applied to electronic communication.Since anonymous, annoying and mass mailings can besent through the postal system, they should not bebanned from the Internet, Yalen said...