The recently re-drafted Ecuadorean Constitution is the only one in the world, I believe, that gives legal rights to Nature, and its current President has done a lot for wealth redistribution and social justice, in my opinion. Much more than the US Presidents of late. On Jun 26, 2013 6:14 PM, "Eleanor Saitta" <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2013.06.26 18.26, hellekin wrote: > > Ecuador won a huge credibility bump in hackerdom when it offered > > political asylum to Julian Assange. That is confirmed with Edward > > Snowden jumping from HK to Ecuador via the Red Block to evade the > > Angry Murder of U.S. crows. There is a pattern here: if you leak > > U.S. secrets, you can go to Ecuador. How cool is that? > > > > Unfortunately, the flip side of the Ecuadorian coin might not be > > as bright as it seems. > > I don't think anyone is assuming that Ecuador is a bright and shining > city on a hill when it comes to civil liberties. What it is is a > tactically and potentially strategically useful jurisdiction for a > specific class of people in some situations. As with Hong Kong and > Russia, I wouldn't assume that anyone is endorsing it as such. > > I mean, if they are, yes, they should go do some reading, but that's > just not germane to the conversation for the most part, unless we're > talking about civil rights in a whole pile of other places as well. > > E. > > - -- > Ideas are my favorite toys. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlHLdb8ACgkQQwkE2RkM0wo/lAD8CbW8emlRpNIbbgtFdgOEJ9Sg > TqwvUdGs3J0E5MocMpMA/jKt8Fbiu0f23QMYAOB1I/1LFGEFvqJcgRU2VDmcJu8+ > =FQlD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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