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Downhill Battle has responded to some of the questions raised in this thread. This question and forum session proves that discussion makes things clearer.

It seems to me that those for the gaim filesharing project agree to some extent about reforming the music industry and those who write extremely rhetorical questions against the project do not share the proactive sentiments of Downhill Battle's activism, which is totally fine. On a fundamental level though, there will be small-scale sharing as well as large-scale sharing and the two do not conflict, while the small-scale could chip away at the major labels in a different way than the large-scale sharing.

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It definitely hurts him. He needs a BIG turnout from the religious right.

The challenge when bills like this are proposed it to come to where the proponents are, rather than setting up a civil liberties versus safety showdown. To oppose this, we need to frame the argument in ways that relate to the safety concerns that are driving the bill-- otherwise, people will always pick safety over some seemingly paranoid and vague worry about big brother. The case needs to be made that this restricts freedom, which is the goal of the terrorists, and that it will not increase safety, which probably could be easily demonstrated by analyzing previous attacks and whether or not this type of checkpoint would be able to head them off.

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And on the same token he will continue to wage war on the constitution by not only crap like the Patriot act, but pushing for EVEN MORE with Patriot II. He will continue to suppress findings and reports that the CIA assembled regarding 9/11. His speaking skills will continue to degenerate to where he cannot express himself at all.

Look anything good you can say about Bush can be easily countered with all the bad crap he has pulled. I voted for him once, as the lesser of two evils. Also because I mistakenly believed he was a conservative, but his irresponsible deficit spending cured me of that misconception.

And of course for many of the reasons you outlined, Kerry is no better. Since I do not feel strongly enough that either of these two should be president, I will vote for the 3rd party candidate who I most agree with.

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There's also been a huge amount of participation built up around this Sinclair Broadcasting scandal. People have been deluging advertisers with calls, mostly driven by interest on blogs. It seems to be working. (via The Regular)