[free-sklyarov] ok, i was willing to buy the flight risk line

[Yogi]

Not a "flight risk?"  Seems to me that's *exactly* what the stuntman was
:-))) (Sorry, I couldn't help it)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Callahan" <callahanpb at yahoo.com>
To: <free-sklyarov at zork.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:55 PM
Subject: [free-sklyarov] ok, i was willing to buy the flight risk line


> ...but, and I realize this is a little off topic, we have some guy
> from France making an ass of himself around the Statue of Liberty
> and endangering the lives of people who have to come and
> rescue him:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/08/23/statue.parasail/index.html
>
> This is a unambiguous offense committed on US soil.  This knucklehead
> is
> immediately out on bail (passport confiscated--making it harder to
> leave the country) unlike Sklyarov who was in Federal custody
> for weeks.  Nobody called the stuntman a "flight risk" despite
> the fact that his home is in France.
>
> Can someone please explain why Sklyarov was more of a flight risk
> than this person?
>
> OK, is itbecause it's a misdemeanor offense to selfishly
> misdirect valuable safety resources (not to mention potentially
> damaging a national monument) whereas "circumventing" a poorly
> designed encryption system by writing a program on a computer
> in Russia is a "felony" under DMCA? That's about all I can figure.
> Or maybe French are treated better than Russians in this country?
>
> Seriously, I'd be interested in a legal analysis from
> someone who can speak authoritatively.  Clearly, it is *not* the
> case that foreign nationals are routinely denied bail in the US as
> "flight risks."  I was more or less bamboozled into thinking this
> *was* the case after hearing the official explanations for
> Sklyarov's initial bail status.
>
> Let me repeat: Clearly, it is *not* the case that foreign nationals
> are routinely denied bail in the US as flight risks.  Dmitry was
> treated badly.  Anyone want to convince me otherwise?
>
> --Paul
>
>
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