🚀 go-pugleaf

in prison for possession of a red
>   box in early 1995, they knew he could be screwed again when he finally
>   got out since being arrested is a probation violation.
>   
>   And Special Agent Thomas Varney spent a great deal of effort to see that
>   this is exactly what happened. He made multiple trips to Easton and
>   convinced the local authorities to lock Cummings up as if he were the
>   most sadistic of killers.
>    
>   On Friday, Cummings' probation officer did an aboutface and told the
>   court that he thought Cummings represented a very great danger to the
>   community. Outside the courtroom, he and the other local law enforcement
>   people crowded around Varney like kids surrounding a rock star. He was
>   their hero and maybe one day they would be just like him.
 
Well, isn't that strange: the Secret Service taking a strong interest in
the probation violation hearing of Ed Cummings for taking batteries out
of a tone dialer.

Not only were they interested, they testified against him!
 
>   HERE WE GO AGAIN
>    
>   1/12/96. In addition to the judge, Northampton County probation officer
>   Scott Hoke, Secret Service agent Tom Varney, and Haverford Township
>   detective John Morris were in attendance. Varney and Morris arrived
>   in the same car.
>    
>   Tom Varney of the Secret Service then told the judge that he believed
>   Cummings to be a major threat to society and that he was concerned
>   because of the upcoming presidential campaign. It was unclear if he
>   was actually implying that Cummings would somehow be a threat to the
>   president but the judge and the police listened intently.
>   
>   This was the first time a Secret Service agent had come to their town.
>   Varney continued to describe the threatening items that had been found
>   in Cummings' residence: a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook, publications
>   from Loompanix, a mag stripe