Re: Sen. Leahy's "impeccable cyberspace credentials"
At 09:50 AM 8/26/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Go a head and reject the "Beltway politicians". It's fashionable, sure, but what does it really accomplish? Some of them are dangerous. Others are sympathetic.
Not true, some of them are merely less dangerous and harmful than others. As to whether Leahy is one of the less dangerous and harmful ones, that is seriously questionable.
The fact is that short of armed rebellion they are going to be here for a while.I shudder to think of the wrath our opponents could wage if we all threw up our hands packed up our bags and left town.
Bad cop, good cop. You cooperate with the "good" cop, you go to jail. You tell them both to go to hell, then maybe you will not go to jail, and if you do go to jail, at least you will have the satisfaction of screaming injustice all the way: Re read what our "good" cop has been up to:
Worse yet, as recently as this month Leahy has been clamoring to fund the invasive wiretapping legislation ("Digital Telephony") he shepherded through Congress two years ago.
Equally distressingly, Leahy demonstrated his "impeccable cyberspace credentials" by cosponsoring the Senate online copyright bill -- aka the Hollywood Media Mafia's wet dream. (Yes, these are the same rapacious folks who are demanding that the Boy Scouts and summer camps pay cash to sing "God Bless America" and "Puff the Magic Dragon.") Opposed by the American Library Association, EFF, and teachers' organizations, Leahy's bill would slam fair use rights online and could make it a crime to browse the Net without a license.
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Just to clarify, Jonah Seiger wrote the "Go a head and reject" lines below and I wrote the now thrice-nested "Worse yet, as recently" lines. My response to Jonah is forthcoming. -Declan On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, James A. Donald wrote:
At 09:50 AM 8/26/96 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Go a head and reject the "Beltway politicians". It's fashionable, sure, but what does it really accomplish? Some of them are dangerous. Others are sympathetic.
Not true, some of them are merely less dangerous and harmful than others.
As to whether Leahy is one of the less dangerous and harmful ones, that is seriously questionable.
The fact is that short of armed rebellion they are going to be here for a while.I shudder to think of the wrath our opponents could wage if we all threw up our hands packed up our bags and left town.
Bad cop, good cop. You cooperate with the "good" cop, you go to jail. You tell them both to go to hell, then maybe you will not go to jail, and if you do go to jail, at least you will have the satisfaction of screaming injustice all the way:
Re read what our "good" cop has been up to:
Worse yet, as recently as this month Leahy has been clamoring to fund the invasive wiretapping legislation ("Digital Telephony") he shepherded through Congress two years ago.
Equally distressingly, Leahy demonstrated his "impeccable cyberspace credentials" by cosponsoring the Senate online copyright bill -- aka the Hollywood Media Mafia's wet dream. (Yes, these are the same rapacious folks who are demanding that the Boy Scouts and summer camps pay cash to sing "God Bless America" and "Puff the Magic Dragon.") Opposed by the American Library Association, EFF, and teachers' organizations, Leahy's bill would slam fair use rights online and could make it a crime to browse the Net without a license.
| We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com
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