RE: [dvd-discuss] Re: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCAsequel : The SSSCA

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeme A Brelin [mailto:jeme@brelin.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:07 AM
> To: 'dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu'
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Re: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce
> DMCAsequel : The SSSCA
> 
> 
> 
> fOn Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Richard Hartman wrote:
> > Those who sacrifice freedom for a sense of security deserve neither.
> > -Benjamin Franklin
> > 
> > There is the archetypical "Anti SSSCA" slogan.
> 
> Remember this when you see the results of today's bombings.
> 
> I promise you that the perceived need to "beef up anti-terrorist
> security" will require a greater restriction on civil liberties.

Yeah, no doubt.

No doubt, too, that at the same time they will be as ineffective 
towards their stated goal as CSS is against piracy.

Face it, there's no security that the WTC could have had that
would have guarded them against planes crashing into them.

(The Pentagon, otoh, could've had anti-aircraft batteries if
they had thought of it.)

> 
> Also note that the cause of these bombings is the US undermining the
> sovereignty of foreign nations... limiting civil liberties 
> (particularly
> the right of self-rule)... in the name of corporate power.

I am afraid that we will have to disagree on the cause.

To my mind, the cause of these bombings is people who are
unable or unwilling to embrace a peaceful resolution to their
differences.

Some people actually _prefer_ conflict.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!