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Old January 11th 06, 10:11 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.equipment
Travis Jordan
 
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Default A slight nuisance-related format change...

wrote:
Thanks. My approach to some things is to poke it with a stick and see
what happens...


Bad idea.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/.../~c109Iy1qN7::

SEC. 114. CRIMINAL PROVISION RELATING TO STALKING.

(a) Interstate Stalking- Section 2261A of title 18, United States
Code, is amended to read as follows:

`Sec. 2261A. Stalking

`Whoever--

`(1) travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the special
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or enters or
leaves Indian country, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or place
under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate
another person, and in the course of, or as a result of, such travel
places that person in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily
injury to, or causes substantial emotional distress to that person, a
member of the immediate family (as defined in section 115) of that
person, or the spouse or intimate partner of that person; or

`(2) with the intent--

`(A) to kill, injure, harass, or place under surveillance with
intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate, or cause substantial
emotional distress to a person in another State or tribal jurisdiction
or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the
United States; or

`(B) to place a person in another State or tribal jurisdiction, or
within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
States, in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury
to--

`(i) that person;

`(ii) a member of the immediate family (as defined in section
115 of that person; or

`(iii) a spouse or intimate partner of that person;

uses the mail, any interactive computer service, or any facility
of interstate or foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct that
causes substantial emotional distress to that person or places that
person in reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to,
any of the persons described in clauses (i) through (iii) of
subparagraph (B);

shall be punished as provided in section 2261(b) of this title.'.

(b) Enhanced Penalties for Stalking- Section 2261(b) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(6) Whoever commits the crime of stalking in violation of a
temporary or permanent civil or criminal injunction, restraining order,
no-contact order, or other order described in section 2266 of title 18,
United States Code, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than
1 year.'.