Re: Sen. Leahy's "impeccable cyberspace credentials"

[Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>]

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.
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