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Swarthmore Students Keep Diebold Memos Online
An anonymous reader submits "Two student groups based out of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania announced today that they are rejecting Diebold Elections Systems' cease-and-desist orders and are initiating an electronic civil disobedience campaign that will ensure permanent public access to the controversial leaked memos. You can read the memos, search the memos, or download the memos."
Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it will defend the right of Online Privacy Group, the Internet service provider for San Francisco Indymedia,
Is this the same Indymedia which consists of "stories" posted by raving lunatics that try to pass their most rabid conspiracy theories as legitimate news items? If that's independent news media, give me my biased greedy coporate controlled news anyday.
- sigs are for wimps.
Just another example of how America's colleges promote liberalism and anti-americanism, and promote the acceptance of lawbreaking. The aptly-named "liberal arts college" should be banned if you ask me.
I've heard it all now. Communist China conservative? What about the Cultural Revolution? What happened to 'no enemies on the left'?
Communism is the most extreme manifestation of loony leftism. They are your ideological cousins, and it is you leftist twits who should be ashamed of your history of making excuses for their wickedness.
The blood of millions of people is on the heads of the "progressive" nitwits in the West who supported Mao and Stalin and the dozens of minor tyrants who followed them.
You should stop trying to redefine conservatism as anything that pampered Western liberal intellectuals don't like, and vice versa. It's dishonest and despicable.
-ccm
Too much Law; not enough Order.
Hey, if hippie-wannabes piss you off more then rigged elections, may I suggest you move immediately to someplace more in accord with your philosophy? Red China, maybe? Hardly any hippie-wannabes and plenty of rigged elections.
It's a win-win deal. You'll be happier, and the rest of us, who worry more about who's going to lead us than who has a politically incorrect haircut, will be happier without you.
they are hardly participating in civil disobedience
Judging by the information you expressed in your message, you may not be aware of the gradual transition of power from elected representatives of the people to appointed representatives of the corporate sector...
Just to bring you up to date on how things are today:
- Corporations now have primary consideration before indivudal people for all high-impact legislative decisions. (tax relief, wars, special contracts, etc)
- Citizens who threaten to harm the profit margin of a corporation will be rounded up and silenced. (DMCA, reverse engineering, publishing security audits)
- Law enforcment of intellectual property is being turned over to corporations. (suponea power of the RIAA)
- Existing monoplies are extended indefinitely to ensure any potential future profit is secured, despite the suffering of the public domain (copyright extensions)
- New monopolies are granted with minimal review for corporations who have contributed sufficient funding to ensure their approval. (FCC, patent system)
Perhaps it wouldn't be considered "civil disobedience" ten years ago, but nowadays, any act which threatens the bottom line of a large corporation will most likely be interpreted by our legal system as an act of civil disobedience or be considered a violation of some other nonsensical law in order to put a stop to it.
Forward my mail to the MiniLuv...
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