On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Vijay Anand <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is your take on Aaron? It looks like with Julian, and now Aaron > (liberating data is the new form of activism) - and not the long route > of creating an organization and lobbying for years and opening it up, > but bruteforce opening (and facing the brutality of it when it > backfires) is what the masses are backing after. It somehow brings me > mental images of public execution of the old powers during the French > Revolution - a bit hasty and bloody for my taste. > What role did Aaron's illness play in his death? Eric Eldred was not driven to take his own life when Eldred v. Ashcroft was decided. Who are the masses you are referring to? As the Indian independence (and women's suffrage) struggle(s) illustrated, there are different ways of breaking an unjust rule/law. In my opinion, forcing the hand of the oppressor to overreaction and exposing the inherent violence and contradictions in the unjust rule/law is a better way of bringing about change. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo! Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
