I am coming, and hope others will too. Cheers Szemir On December 8, 2007 11:26, Greg King wrote: > Hi folks, > > If any of you have a 1/2 hour to spare today at 2:30 please meet some CUUG > members at Jim Prentice's Open House to present a protest to the proposed > new Canadian copyright law. > > For details see > http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/07/canadians-tomorrow-i.html > > Open house is at: > Jim Prentice Constituency Office > Suite 105 > 1318 Centre St NE > Calgary, Alberta T2E 2R7 > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Brander > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 10:49 AM > To: public Calgary UNIX talk > Subject: Re: [CalgaryUNIX] Jim Prentice and proposed new copyright > legislation > > I just saw this on slashdot myself. I have a crowded schedule today (my > father's arriving by air ambulance from the states with a collapsed lung at > 4) but I'm trying to think how I could squeeze into the 2:30-3:00 period at > the end of Prentice's "open house" to go confront him. > > Can anybody join me? The psychological impact of several people going > there, delivering a polite but curt and forceful message and then all > walking out together would be much, much larger than one person doing it > alone. One person is a crank, several are a political message. > > Proposed text: > > "Mr. Prentice, my companions and I are all members of the Calgary Unix > Users Group, basically an organization of mostly middle-aged computer > professionals that operate and program the kind of servers that run large > corporations and the Internet itself. As members of the high-tech > industry, we have been monitoring the copyright debate for over a decade > now and we are all convinced that most industry-backed copyright > legislation is bad for the industry itself. > > The same kind of people opposed radio 80 years ago because it 'gave away > free music' and the VCR 25 years ago when Jack Valenti infamously described > it as being to Hollywood what the Boston Strangler was to women. Your > proposed legislation could easily damage both hi-tech and artistic content > industries alike as much as the proposed laws against VCRs and radio would > have if legislators of those times had been foolish enough to enact them. > > We see it as our duty as citizes, therefore, tto let you know that if > anything remotely resembling this legislation is passed by this government > that we will have to cast aside all our former political preferences in > favour of ending conservative party rule. We are not talking about > changing our votes. We are talking about donating to your opponents, > fund-raising for your opponents, working for your opponents. Your own seat > here in Calgary is no-doubt safe, so we as rational engineers will of > course devote our efforts to seats where the conservative party is weakest. > > We don't have any questions, those are all amply answered by the reading we > have already done. We just wanted to let you know." > > Then we turn and walk out. > > Come on, can anybody else come? > _______________________________________________ > CalgaryUNIX mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cuug.ab.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/calgaryunix > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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