On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:58:38 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
<ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>
>"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:aBCNb.17509$ws.2081108@news02.tsnz.net...
>>
>> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
>> news:100d6t93o01cv9e@corp.supernews.com...
>> > In news:6DoNb.17257$ws.2056059@news02.tsnz.net,
>> > Adam Whyte-Settlar <grawillers@hotmail.com> radiated into the
>> > WorldWideWait:
>> > > "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
>> > > news:100apt0hirhntd2@corp.supernews.com...
>> > >> In news:bu3j2n$d55va$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
>> > >> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the
>> > >> WorldWideWait:
>> > >>> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
>> > >>> news:100ail8tmslmbaa@corp.supernews.com...
>> > >>>> In news:bu30fu$d1mu9$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
>> > >>>> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the
>> > >>>> WorldWideWait:
>> > >>
>> > >>>>> Like my granddaddy always used to say, you throw a rock into a
>> > >>>>> pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit.
>> > >>>>> If he doesn't like the US, he should just go on the hell home.
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Adam is an expatriate Brit living in New Zealand.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Now I know you're trying to pull a fast one on me. They don't have
>> > >>> the Internet in New Zealand!
>> > >>
>> > >> Well, no, but he hollers real loud...
>> > >
>> > > Only sometimes... I think I must be missing synarse and Dave.
>> > > Is Dave still posting by the way? Havn't seen any mention of him
>> > > lately. He (Ryan) is not far wrong though - we just bought another
>> > > house and the property manager at the bank doesn't have e-mail!
>> >
>> > Hopefully, the Brit Law finally caught up with him in his
>> > terrorist-support activities and locked him away for a looonng time.
>> >
>> I don't think he actually engaged in 'activities' - just speaking out -
>and
>> as of this writing that is still not punishable by a long jail term in the
>> UK. Is it?
>> A W-S
>
>Depends.
>Be mindful of the Official Secrets Act.

To be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act you have to have
signed an official declaration promising to be bound by it. 

To the best of my knowledge, Dave has never signed it, but I'm sure
quite a few people here have, myself included. The last bloke to tell
all (from MI5) went to jail to remind us that a promise is a promise.
When I was in the Army, the workings of the Lewis machinegun (used
extensively in WWI) was still classified as a military secret.



Murchadh.