Re: Bush administration proposal would criminalize 'attempted' copyright infringement

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org>
Date: May 15, 2007 10:29:03 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org>, ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Bush administration proposal would criminalize  
'attempted' copyright infringement

For IP:

> Life imprisonment is only one step away.  So a hospital employee who
> uses pirated software (assuming this means that the DRM was
> subverted) will be punished in the same way that murders are punished.
>
> What are these guys thinking.....

They're thinking that keeping the "right" people in power
and punishing wrongdoers (and thinkers), defined as anybody who
opposes the "right" people, is more important than anything else.

If you haven't read this book, you may want to do so:
 http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

If you have any remaining illusions that the current administration
is like the party of Nelson Rockefeller or even Nixon, much less  
Goldwater,
that book may dispell them for you.

To any readers who are Republicans: I wish you luck in taking
your party back from the people who have stolen it.

> Bob

-jsq

 "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists,
  and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians
  who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle,
  the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have
  tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face
  and say 'you helped this happen.'" (September 13, 2001, The 700 Club)

 "Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions."

  --Jerry Falwell (August 11, 1933 - May 15, 2007)


 "Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the  
plan
  of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by  
inserting
  'Jesus Christ,' so that it would read 'A departure from the plan  
of Jesus
  Christ, the holy author of our religion;' the insertion was  
rejected by
  the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within  
the
  mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and
  Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."

  --Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826),
    Autobiography, re the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom



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