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

[Jim Kinney]

+10!
On Jun 27, 2011 3:45 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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