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

[Charles Eakins]

Note to self: Declan is an egotistical jerk, not worth the energy it takes
to type short messages in reply.

-----Original Message-----
From: free-sklyarov-admin at zork.net
[mailto:free-sklyarov-admin at zork.net]On Behalf Of Declan McCullagh
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:21 PM
To: free-sklyarov at zork.net; Charles Eakins
Cc: 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.


On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:14:46PM -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> 	Excuse me Declan, but didn't that unanimous approval include
> Rep. Ron Paul, who WAS THE LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE in 1988?
> That is, the closest thing the Libertarian Party has to having someone
> in Congress, the person who was so senior that he was once the nominee
> President on the Libertarian Party ticket, voted for the DMCA?

Last I checked, there were no Libertarians in Congress; Paul is a
Republican.

But anyway, I did check into this. I was wrong; it was a voice vote in
the House: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:HR02281:@@@X

I don't know how Paul voted, but I suspect he voted against the DMCA.
Paul has said in the past that he opposes criminal laws of this sort, and
I know some of his staffers have been critical of the DMCA.

Note to self: Seth is a rabid, nutty flamer, and not worth the time
it takes to reply.

-Declan

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