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CBLDF Auction with Sim & Gaiman
As most regular readers know, I/we are fans of the CBLDF and the EFF (Contribute to both!) The CBLDF is running a charity auction which is collaboration between Dave Sim of Cerebus fame and Neil Gaiman of Sandman amongst others. There's some good background online as well as the auction itself. The money raised will go to fighting censorship in the graphic arts. I'd also heartily recommend reading Neil's blog and taking Dave Sim up on his offer. His collected form letter are funny, thought provoking and great to read. Oh - and happy birthday, Neil.
I can honestly say I've never heard of them before this story.
Don't forget guys, these are the people who are fighting against the DMCA, the USA PATRIOT ACT, and any other civil liberty limiting crap legislation.
Good job guys, we love ya all.
IGB: More fun than eating oatmeal!
That sounds really shit. Fucking stupid nerds.
Those wacky wikipediants: Bush redirects to Shrub. How fitting!
[shields: up] The DMCA came during Emperor Clinton's reign.
if you sell something that people might actually want.
Note: This isn't off topic, really.
Well you know that all proceeds go to the new Hall of Justice in the Hague.
Bush,
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You committed a clearly impeachable act by manipulating and distorting intelligence information to further your preconceived plans for war.
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You exploited the nation's anguish on 9/11 to justify a war you had planned long before that date.
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You spent more than a year trying to prevent an independent inquiry into the causes of the attacks on 9/11.
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You withheld and falsely classified information that would allow the American people access to vital information about the attacks of 9/11.
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You sent the Sec. of State to the United Nations with fabricated evidence to support your false claim that war against Iraq was urgent.
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By invading and occupying Iraq, you violated the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a signatory.
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You waged an illegal and immoral war against a non belligerent nation, killing 100,000 of its civilians, and maiming thousands more.
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You sent American and coalition military men and women into harm's way without adequate war plans, without adequate armor and equipment, without adequate plans for the occupation, and without an exit strategy.
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Your unnecessary war of choice in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of nearly 1200 soldiers and in serious injury to thousands more.
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You knowingly violated the Geneva Convention by allowing torture and abuse at prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
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You unlawfully detained prisoners taken in the war against Afghanistan without charges or legal counsel at Guantanamo Bay.
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You unlawfully detained thousands of people in the US without charges or access to legal counsel under the Patriot Act, - and have not convicted a single one of any crime.
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You arranged for personal benefactors and friends to earn huge profits from your war.
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You ignored and refused to investigate the outing of a CIA agent, whose husband had exposed your fabrication for war.
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Your invasion of Iraq has led to unending chaos and violence within the country and endangers the stabilization of the entire Middle East.
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Your war has significantly increased membership in worldwide terrorist groups, making our country and the world far more unsafe.
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You made our country the most feared and reviled in the world, and our President the most hated in history.
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I'm surprised Gaiman wants ot have anything to do with Sim, even for a good cause. For those who don't know, somewhere around issue 200 of 300 monthly Cerebus, Sim seemed to completely flip out- although AFAIK he still denies any pschosis - and publishjed the most abhorrent mysoginist bullshit I've ever come across in my life. Subsequently he seemed developed an obsesive interest in religion and turned most the Cerebus (which was certainly one of the best comics I've read for those 200-or-so issus) into a tedious mass of densely written ramblings that, speaking with my Psychologist degree hat on, I'd say indicated more than a hint of paranoid schizophrenia.
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Real journalists actually expand acronyms at some point in the article. You know, you're allowed to edit submissions for clarity. That's why they pay you to be editors
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In general, the Democrats are better buddies with Hollywood than the Republicans are (save Gov. Schwarzenegger of California), but in the face of a bill with heavy bipartisan support in Congress, the veto power of the President of the United States is merely ceremonial. President Clinton couldn't have stopped the DMCA, the Bono Act, or any other bill that passed both houses by voice vote, as it takes 81 percent of each house to pass a bill by voice vote but only 67 percent to override a presidential veto.
I have to throw this out there:
Gaiman is an amazing author. For those of you who only know him for Sandman, you are missing out. I urge you, nay, command you to read Stardust, Neverwhere, and American Gods. Those books are, flat out, fucking amazing. Go. Now. Read.
That is all.
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Andrew Rilstone, who's a hell of a lot smarter than me, wrote a number of essays about this, which are frickin' brilliant.
Cerebus the Aardvark: An Obituary
Cerebus the Aardvark: An Obituary (2)
Is Dave Sim Mad?
Is Dave Sim Mad? (Update)
Does Dave Sim Have Occasional Moments of Lucidity?
The first one, I think, says what you mean by bugs in your breakfast: The text piece in Cerebus # 226 made me feel physically unwell; made me feel as if I'd been kicked in the stomach; actually spoiled my whole afternoon. When the drunken John Lennon beat up a waitress, she is reported as having said 'What really hurts is finding out that your idol is a complete asshole.'
I haven't reached the part of the series when Sim goes mad yet. I suppose it'll be... enlightening. (I finished "Jaka's Story" recently, and am scouting for "Melmoth".)
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Sheesh. Maybe you and Sim should get together for tea some time.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
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