STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK (From G.T., Washington, D.C., who is currently the front-runner for the Death Star teeshirt and pin prizes.) I don't know whether this is contest-worthy material, but I do think that NATO has some real intellectual property rights worth preserving. For example, it wrote the book on collateral damage. Definitely copyright-able. Then an infringer like McVeigh comes along and steals this idea and peddles it as his own. Is that fair? Of course not. No one should be able to steal NATO's work, so NATO should definitely be able to keep and enforce the copyright on collateral damage. And how about the process patent on humanitarian intervention? Do you think that after the hours of study and experimenting to perfect the process, just anyone should be able to come along, purloin the idea, and bomb sovereign countries in violation of international law? The result would be chaos. No, NATO must retain its monopoly on humanitarian intervention, and the patent laws should provide the requisite protection. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
