[Seattle-editorial] RE: hey Gentry

[Gentry Lange]

No, but I was contacted by the folks arrested and told to remove the story
for legal reasons pertaining to their prosecution. To keep mentioning it is
apparently not going to help them out... And as the source is mum, and mine
is only 2nd hand information, I feel it is both against their wishes to keep
discussing it, and not particularly good journalism, as it is
unsubstantiated by anyone other than me at this point. Without their
statements and further support, I might as well just have made it up. Not
that I did.

To me it goes against a request made to me by the activists involved, and
could make their legal problems worse. Besides that, all attempts to verify
the account have proven fruitless. They were officially arraigned on felony
burglary charges, and no official sources can prove the original
allegations. My objection is that at this point this is a rumor, however,
there are quotes around the words "flagged for possible links to terrorist
organizations." This makes it sound as if there is a source for this
statement which there is not at this point.

Gentry

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Prouty [mailto:poeftr at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:23 PM
To: g at art13.com
Subject: hey Gentry


did you make a mistake to post it in the first place?

I am sorry it keeps popping up..

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