I've written before about the relationship between the Democrats and the Entertainment industry (RIAA, etc) and the havoc they are wreaking with our digital rights (DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act], CBDTA [Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act]). For those of you who are new to the list since that time, consider yourselves now notified that your digital rights are under attack. The time is coming when Linux itself could be outlawed, along with all free software.
The real enemy here is not copyrighted media that needs to be hacked. The real enemies are the (elected) LAWMAKERS, who will enact laws that will allow the Federal authorities (FBI, SBI, etc) to be used as an auxillary arm of Microsoft and the Entertainment industries. In other words, by using Democratic lawmakers to pass certain laws, they will have the power to totally control what software you run (Palladium) and also what OS's are legal to run (Linux vs Microshat). Future non-compliance of said laws will bring the Federal authorities down on you courtesy of the Democrats. Do not be fooled by rhetoric. The Democrats have historically been the party of slavery and in fact still are. Power is their end goal; make no mistake about it. SEE: http://wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,55989,00.html Tom "Stonewall" Daschle (Senate majority leader) has done everything in his power to stop anything approaching progress in the Senate. (Judicial nominations, economic bills, etc) Every bill that has needed to be passed to help the economy has already been passed by the House, and is now stalled in the Senate. Courtesy "Stonewall". Therefore the primary goal of the Dems is not the health or safety of the nation at large, but rather the end goal of procurement of political power. Some inkling of their end goal is apparent when the record of their attitude towards Digital Rights is examined. Not only Digital rights, but basically anything that would help the individual rather than the Government is at risk. The worst thing that good people can do in this is to do nothing. This letter is primarily directed at Americans; although I do think that everyone else should be watching because what happens in America will affect the rest of the world. I urge those of you who value your digital rights and those of you who love Linux to please vote in November; and my suggestion is to vote these Democrat parasites out of office. Remember that the Democrats represent government intrusion, digital rights erosion, and TAXATION. When you watch C-span, don't be fooled by the liberal rhetoric or the subtle lean of C-Span to the left. The Republicans are not perfect by any means, but I can promise you that your individual rights will be more protected by the Reps than they will by the Dems. The Republicans have historically been the party of freedom, Abraham Lincoln and anti-slavery. And they still are. A good place to be further pro-active (other than voting pro-Republican in Novemember) is to visit the following site: http://www.eff.org/ Also remember: just about everything you see on television is engineered to make liberals and democrats look good. That is primarily how they maintain their power base (other than their death stranglehold on the public educational system.) My recommendation is to listen to Fox news, talk radio hosts such as G. Gordon Liddy, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingram, and Rush Limbaugh. (yes, Rush Limbaugh is a good source of information, contrary to popular liberal misinformation) and flush the rest. Try listening to the following Realplayer link between 12 and 3:00 EST - rtsp://a271.l582920640.c5829.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/271/5829/v0001/reflector:20640 This is a real good place to start getting informed on the forces at work against the common people in our society today. Good luck to us all in November. --LX P.S. Since I submitted the piece on "Recording Netbroadcasts", the DMCA has forced a large number of talk radio stations off the Internet by means of extortion (heavy taxation). The Realplayer links in that article are dead, as are a huge number of other broadcast links. The information itself is being throttled by the DMCA. So get the information from the talk radio links that are left alive while you can. -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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