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To: John Sladek who wrote (398)	9/18/2003 4:40:00 PM
From: dantecristo	Respond to of 408

"Speech Rap Sept. 11 of this year didn't bode well for a so-called terrorist in a federal San Jose courtroom. Cameron Moore (or "crack_smoking_jesus" as he liked to be called on the Internet) received six months of home detention, four years of probation and an order to pay a still-undetermined amount of restitution to his victims. ... Readers of these pages may remember the twisted saga of Mary Day, Michelangelo Delfino, Varian Associates and, of course, the ostensible terrorist himself, Moore ("InterNot Free Speech," March 27, "Geek on Trial," June 12). Day and Delfino were once employees at Varian Associates in Palo Alto (now Varian Semiconductor and Varian Medical Systems). After Delfino was fired (and Day subsequently quit), due to some unusual accusations made by a top Varian employee, the two, a common-law couple, launched an Internet-based assault against employees at their former company. Ultimately, they lost a jury verdict for posting disparaging and sometimes ludicrous remarks against the company and its employees on the Internet. The case, considered one that could set legal precedents for free speech on the Internet, is set for appeal later this year. ... Meanwhile, Moore, an Agilent employee from Colorado who Delfino and Day allege has connections to another top Varian employee, was caught by the feds posting threatening emails to the two disillusioned employees. (This was a step above Delfino and Day's merely disparaging postings.) Moore was finally sentenced last Wednesday (again, on Sept. 11, to the delight of both Delfino and Day) for posting such messages as "Mikey is going to DIE real soon," and "you'll never know when the hammer is coming down on YOU." Day reflects on the sentencing. "It was very quiet," she tells Eye. "I think they were all kind of surprised that the judge came down very hard." " metroactive.com