Haven't seen the post from Tom Byron that Mike's commenting on, but this made me laugh (quoting Tom Byron here):

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I believed then, as I do now, that if enough (sane) people were aware of what their Government was doing, they would not stand for it. But, in order for that to happen, someone had to be willing to put it all on the line, and fall on his sword if necessary, something I didn't see Steve Hirsch or Russ Hampshire doing.




Hampshire of course went to jail for a year and paid something like a cool $1 million in fines. I read parts of the case out of curiosity a few years ago, when the Ashcroft hysteria was at its peak, and it was pretty clear that he did this, at least in part, to protect other people who worked for him. In that situation, dunno what I'd do, but I think that's the definition of "falling on your sword." Pretty shitty to call the old guy out like that.
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