[free-sklyarov] What is really wrong about the skylarov arrest?

[secretcodes at mypad.com]

We all are on this list because we're stunned by the arrest
of a businessman and programmer -- the charging of a foreign
programmer with US laws -- only because of writing a program.

But, what is behind this arrest? It stands as a symbol for
the many things that are wrong today in America.

It stands a symbol for an era of politicians issuing arbitrary
laws that enlarge government control and create victimless
crimes, and often in the name of a "public good".

The point of valid law is the protection from initiatory force
or fraud. Restrictions which are not intended to protect the
individual are arbitrary, exploitable, dishonest.

The DMCA criminalizes the creation and distribution of a program,
a piece of free speech, a piece of information. Free information itself
never involves fraud or force. Creation of information is always a victimless
crime, unwelcomed by the corporations like Adobe, and organizations like
MPAA/RIAA that try to pressure the market through political power and
information control, perhaps. However, such actions never involve fraud
or force against a party or victim.



                       A Constitution for Freedom


                                  Preamble

   The purpose of human life is to live happily.
   The function of government is to guarantee those conditions that allow
   individuals to fulfill their purpose. Those conditions can be
   guaranteed through a constitution that forbids the use of initiatory
   force, fraud, or coercion by any person or group against any individual:

                                   * * *

                                 Article 1

   No person, group of persons or government may initiate force, threat
   of force, or fraud against any individual's self or property.

                                 Article 2

   Force may be morally and legally used only in self-defense against
   those who violate Article 1.

                                 Article 3

   No exceptions shall exist for Articles 1 and 2.

                                   * * *

   The Constitution rests on six axioms:
    1. Values exist only relative to life.
    2. Whatever benefits a living organism is a value to that organism.
       Whatever harms a living organism is a disvalue to that organism.
    3. The basic value against which all values are measured is the
       conscious individual.
    4. Morals relate only to conscious individuals.
    5. Immoral actions arise from individuals choosing to harm others
       through force, fraud, deception, coercion -- or from individuals
       choosing to usurp, attack, or destroy values earned by others.
    6. Moral actions arise from individuals choosing to benefit others by
       competitively producing values for them.


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