http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/articles/2006/08/03/news/news1.txt Prosecutor joins FBI, district attorney in Web site investigation BY GREGORY OREAR, Managing Editor Published: Thursday, August 3, 2006 3:28 PM CDT <http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/articles/2006/08/03/news/news1.eml> E-mail this story | Print this page <http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/articles/2006/08/03/news/news1.prt>
KIRKSVILLE - The Adair County prosecutor is working with federal officials on an investigation into death threats allegedly posted on a Kirksville man's Web site. Mark Williams told the Daily Express in an exclusive interview that he met with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and representatives from the United States District Attorney's office this week regarding Alex Linder's Web site, the Vanguard News Network. The Web site was shut down last week after Linder allegedly posted a death against Federal Court of Canada Justice Konrad W. von Finckenstein, members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman. Williams and federal authorities are now trying to decide if any laws were broken, and if so, which ones. "We are trying to figure out if this crosses the line," Williams said. "The FBI is going to further discuss the case with the U.S. Attorneys office and they will contact me." Williams and Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes both received letters last week from Canadian officials regarding the site. "The Canadian authorities who sent us the letter ... they have taken it very seriously," Williams said. "And they asked us to investigate it, which we are." The threats were posted after London, Ontario resident Tomasz Winnicki was jailed for nine months for contempt of court. Winnicki had violated a court order from von Finckenstein barring him from posting hate messages. The London Free Press in Ontario, Canada, reported after being informed of the threats, the Internet service provider shut down the main Web site and the VNN forum July 26. However, Linder indicated in an interview this morning that the ISP, Cable Bay, had nothing to do with the site going offline. "The P1 service was actually yanked from pressure I think came from Canada," he said. "Essentially, you have foreigners messing with our first amendment rights." He also asserted he broke no laws. "I'm here, I'm not in jail and I didn't do anything," he said. Linder said this is the 10th time he has had to change sites, and that this time, they have added a number of sites and servers. "They can still knock us down, but we can get back up again," he said. Linder said a Web blog version of the Site came back online within three or four days, and the forum site was back this morning. However, as of noon, the forum site in fact was still offline. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
