[free-sklyarov] Libertarian party is not our friends, they are no better then the democrats and republicans.

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Wed Sep 12 09:32:10 PDT 2001


If you'd stop frothing -- I know, an unlikely proposition -- you'd see that 
I was talking about the message you sent today to the free-sklyarov list 
(and others). Yawn.

At 09:27 AM 9/12/01 -0700, Charles Eakins wrote:
>Hello McFly been tried!  I forwarded many articles to them over the past 2
>months.  Any "sniping" I did was deserved, you weren't on the list, so your
>not very well informed now are you?  Now who's sniping?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:declan at well.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:15 AM
>To: Charles Eakins; Charles Eakins
>Cc: free-sklyarov at zork.net; dmca_discuss at lists.microshaft.org;
>it_union at lists.microshaft.org
>Subject: RE: [free-sklyarov] Libertarian party is not our friends, they
>are no better then the democrats and republicans.
>
>
>Maybe, but at least one (large) party chapter came out in favor of Sklyarov:
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-02377.html
>
>Like any organization, political parties have limited resources and lots of
>things to deal with. If you show them the SF LP statement and statements
>from libertarian groups opposing Sklyarov's arrest and work with them over
>time (instead of sniping at them on a mailing list), perhaps you'll win
>them over.
>
>I wonder what the Democratic and Republican parties think of the DMCA? Oh,
>that's right. They wrote it and unanimously approved it. :)
>
>-Declan
>
>
>At 09:11 AM 9/12/01 -0700, Charles Eakins wrote:
> >For me, the Seattle branch of the Libertarian party has sat on there butts
> >about this, and basically voiced that this is not an issue they want to
>deal
> >with right now.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: declan at cluebot.com [mailto:declan at cluebot.com]On Behalf Of Declan
> >McCullagh
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:16 AM
> >To: Charles Eakins
> >Cc: free-sklyarov at zork.net; dmca_discuss at lists.microshaft.org;
> >it_union at lists.microshaft.org
> >Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Libertarian party is not our friends, they
> >are no better then the democrats and republicans.
> >
> >
> >There are loons in the Libertarian Party, true, but there are loons in
> >every party. I've spent some time in the last few years writing about the
> >Libertarians and the Greens, and I suspect they're the only (sizeable)
> >political parties that would ever come out against the DMCA and SSSCA.
> >
> >-Declan
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:29:34AM -0700, Charles Eakins wrote:
> > > After spending the last two months on an a local "official" libertarian
> > > party mailing list, I've come to the conclusion that the Libertarian
>party
> > > are a bunch of idiots.  They had no interest in DMCA issues, and Harry
> > > Browne they're pick for president has just put the nail in the coffin of
> >my
> > > beliefs.  First off we don't know who actually committed this "act of
>war"
> > > on the united states, until we know this for fact, I think Mr. Browns
> > > article was embarrassing, and just plain moronic.  What Mr. Browne is
> > > basically saying is we deserved to have innocent Men, Women, and
>Children
> > > killed, even though again we don't know for sure who committed this
> >atrocity
> > > for a fact.  We can conjecture, but until we know for a fact this
>article
> > > wasn't constructive.  I saw allot of in fighting on the libertarian
>list,
> > > and I was caution us to distance ourselves from them.
> > >
> > > Article I'm talking about:
> > >
> > > http://www.antiwar.com/orig/browne2.html
> > >
> > >
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