FC: Bill Purdy's back! Buys up American Boychoir domains...

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Previous Politech messages about the choir:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04671.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04667.html

Our Bill Purdy Politech archive, for those coming late to the game:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy

I've copied some folks at the American Boychoir school. I invite them to 
reply to the Politech list regarding the lawsuit or Purdy's new domains.

-Declan

PS: The official site is americanboychoir.org. The critical site is 
americanboychoir.com. Purdy's domains are 
<http://www.AmericanBoyChoir.net>AmericanBoyChoir<http://www.AmericanBoyChoir.net>.net 
and 
<http://www.AmericanBoysChoir.org>AmericanBoysChoir<http://www.AmericanBoysChoir.org>.org.

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From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdy () attbi com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: Internet Free Speech, American BoyChoir, the "Italian Domain Name 
Bandit", and Declan
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:14:55 -0500
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Dear Declan,

I received your emailing containing Paul Levy's overview regarding the 
American Boychoir's attempts to suppress John
Hardwicke's website and to limit his internet free speech.  As a victim of 
child sex abuse by an older male myself, and also as a victim of a sever 
physical attack of attempted rape by an adult male myself when I was 14 
years old, I empathize with Mr. Hardwicke in his struggles.  Also, as a 
life-long Catholic I witnessed with DISGUST for years and years as the 
courts passively allowed the Catholic Church to DENY, DELAY, and otherwise 
attempt to DISMISS the complaints of victims of child sex abuse that 
occurred while these children were in their care.  I am disgusted with the 
American BoyChoir that they would forgo their MORAL RESPONSIBILITY and use 
the court system to dismiss Mr. Hardwicke's suit and deny Mr. Hardwicke the 
opportunity to publicly expose the sexual abuse that he allegedly suffered.

What is also very disgusting to me is the American BoyChoir's attempts to 
thwart Mr. Hardwicke's internet free speech rights!  As you know, I am a 
prolife activist who is attempting to speak on the internet about the 
horrors of abortion (and what I consider to be the ultimate child abuse - 
i.e. the MURDER of innocent unborn babies).  I am currently being subjected 
to the same type internet-speech-stifling tactics for my criticism of the 
Washington Post, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and McDonalds for their active 
participation in supporting abortion through financial and/or editorial 
support.  During my struggle in Federal Court when I was being threatened 
to be put in JAIL for my "contemptuous" actions in registering 
TheWashingtonPostHARDASS.com, theWashingtonPostJESUS.com, and many others, 
a person in Italy read Declan's emails about the U.S. Court's attempt to 
stifle my internet domain-name speech and registered 52 domain names in 
Italy - most of which were in VIOLATION of the Federal Court Restraining 
Order!  Although I never met, talked with, or emailed to or from what 
Declan dubbed "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT", I am SO GRATEFUL to him for 
his actions.  I believe that "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT" did more to 
PRESERVE my internet free speech rights than any lawyer or any court 
ruling.  Basically what "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT" did was to render 
the Federal Court preliminary injunction IMPOTENT as U.S. Federal Courts 
have no jurisdiction in Italy.   And Declan deserves MUCH CREDIT too 
because "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT" probably never would have heard 
about the internet free-speech stifling tactics of the Washington Post if 
not for Declan.

Therefore, in the spirit of "The Italian Domain-Name Bandit" and in an 
effort to help PRESERVE our internet-free-speech rights and to support Mr. 
Hardwicke, I have purchased (in France) the domain names 
<http://www.AmericanBoyChoir.net>www.AmericanBoyChoir.net and 
<http://www.AmericanBoysChoir.org>www.AmericanBoysChoir.org.  The American 
Boys Choir parody website that these new domain names point to has NOTHING 
at all to do with abortion, but the page was created on a BabySave.com 
page.  The American Boy Choir School is aware of the new domain names and 
website.  I do NOT know Mr. Hardwicke, have never met him, nor have I ever 
had any phone conversations or emails to or from Mr. Hardwicke.  I intend 
to keep these domain names active until I am sure that Mr. Hardwicke's 
internet-free-speech (and internet-domain-name-speech) will NOT be stifled 
by American Boy Choir or by any court.  Good luck Mr. Hardwicke!

Declan, feel free to publicize any part or all of this email to your 
readers. Thanks again Declan for all that you do to PRESERVE our Free 
Speech Rights!

Yours truly,
Bill Purdy





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