[ale] [OT] (slightly) Value Free Speech and Fair Use? Join and support the EFF!

[Charles Shapiro]

Proud Member since 2005 ( I think).

Whatever lunatic fringe you happen to belong to, these dudes are on
the side of the Angels.

-- CHS


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:06 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2011/06/27, at 13:00 , Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> A nice endorsement of EFF from a regular column in the
>>> Chronicle of Higher Education:
>>>
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/profhacker4eff>
>>> <http://preview.tinyurl.com/profhacker4eff>
>>>
>>> EFF is our strongest voice for defending our civil liberties in the
>>> courts of the U.S. legal system. It's an uphill battle though,
>>> because
>>> for more than 25 years the rabid rapist right wing has politically
>>> blockaded judicial appointments wherever the candidate had
>>> a history of defending the U.S. Constitution and the civil liberties
>>> of citizens against corporate greed, corruption and abuse.
>>
>> Eroding of civil liberties is not limited to just the right wing.
>> We've
>> seen erosions under Clinton and Obama, as much as we've seen erosions
>> under Bush.  I think the erosion is more a factor of the "have power,
>> want more power" than about which side of the aisle the leader comes
>> from.
>
> Looking at the record, it seems the blanket political strategy of
> blocking
> judicial appointments until vacancies can be filled by some corporate
> whore has been fairly exclusive to the rabid right wing going back to
> Nixon.
> The obstructionism has allowed the radical right to effectively stack
> our
> courts with their extremist ideologues, from the federal circuits to the
> 5 Supreme Injustices currently shredding the constitution in our highest
> court.
>
> peace
> aaron
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