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

[Declan McCullagh]

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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