From the article:A man was sent to prison for five years for “paper terrorism.” He sent too many papers in a complaint he had with the government. From the news story they link about the man who "sent too many papers":Magritz filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions against a number of county officials, and also filed bogus liens against each official alleging they owed him $15 million. I agree that it's weird to handle that under anti-terrorism legislation, but it sounds like the Prison Planet article is mischaracterizing what the dude did.
I think it's still absurd that it's under "terrorism" when 1) it's non-violent, 2) it's not actually against the government, per se, and 3) it's clearly harassment. Devious, bad, personal harassment. They also didn't include the part about those liens causing significant *personal* credit problems among the individuals -- again, it wouldn't be terrorism.
It's possible there isn't anything else they could charge him under, since I couldn't find a single statute with "lien" and "fraudulent" or "harassment" in there.
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From the news story they link about the man who "sent too many papers":Magritz filed involuntary bankruptcy petitions against a number of county officials, and also filed bogus liens against each official alleging they owed him $15 million.
I agree that it's weird to handle that under anti-terrorism legislation, but it sounds like the Prison Planet article is mischaracterizing what the dude did.
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It's possible there isn't anything else they could charge him under, since I couldn't find a single statute with "lien" and "fraudulent" or "harassment" in there.
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