[ale] Linux apparently illegal in MA

[aaron]

On 2009, Apr, 18, , at 4:29 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>
>> Not for the constitutional violations but for taxes?  I don't  
>> disagree we need
>> to wipe out the current tax structure (and IRS) and go with a Fair  
>> Tax solution,
>> but I do see the spirited relentless attacks on Constitutional  
>> liberties by
>> Boston and Massachusetts to be enough reason for another Tea Party.
>
> Fair Tax == Military Intelligence
> They are both mutually exclusive
>
> Please note that the Declaration of Independence contained originally
> 28 charges included in Thomas Jefferson's original draft.
> Unrepresented taxation was only one. The other 27 charges were far
> more serious in the impact on society that the tax situation.
>
> I'm with Brian Pitts on this. The OP was pointing out the serious lack
> of practical knowledge, experience and education afforded to those
> legally authorized kill people without much cause. That these
> offending public servants have been embroiled in similar instances of
> punitive ignorance suggests that ignorance is most likely entrenched
> in the management structure and thus will be nearly impossible to
> rectify.
>
> As most (if not all) ALE members _are_ the embodiment of the technical
> elite, we have a moral and fiduciary responsibility to work to
> overcome the entrenched ignorance especially of those in positions of
> physical power or decision-making stature. As has been strongly worded
> by many others in this thread, the actions that the ignorant
> constituted as justification for the cessation of the accused liberty
> are all actions we of ALE do on a daily basis. As such it is also in
> our financial interest to provide a modicum of public training to
> prevent further transgressions of this type.
>
> James P. Kinney III

:-)
Not that Mr. P.'s flame bait comments at the start of this thread
-- the ones defending the fascist police state tactics of the "Bomb
& Bankrupt" America destroyers and the whiny, infantile, Faux News
propaganda corp PR stunt Tea Parties (where Faux News played the
the narcissistic Eric Cartman role for all the "Polly Prissypants"
participants**) -- had anything to do with ALE or Linux, but....
:-)

I very much agree with the points that Jim Kinney added above, but
I think it is critically important that we not reduce this to an
issue of protecting our "financial interest" (even though that
may be all that America's mad obsession with consumerist greed
and gluttony allows for anymore). It also seems obvious that this
wasn't a matter of enforcement incompetence or an excusable case
of technical ignorance. This was a symptom of much larger and
more insidious national sicknesses.

To me, the Boston College incident was clearly a police state
action of illegal, unconstitutional search and seizure. The
official justifications for the unjustifiable violations seem
to all be founded in the long standing corporate state attacks
on our personal freedoms and privacy, attacks very neatly
reinforced by the expanding criminalization and vilification
of informed personal technology users. These attacks are
clearly demonstrated in anti-constitutional legislation like
the DMCA, the antithetically named "patriot" act and growing
lists of dangerous, draconian laws that obliterate distinctions
between sexuality, sexual content, sexual conduct and sexual
assault by pandering to puritanical or hysterical public paranoia
surrounding these topics. The issues here are nothing so trivial
as financial interest; this is about defending our most basic
human rights and civil liberties against a  government of noble
democratic foundation that has been corrupted and crippled by
decades of suffering the social cancers of a corporatist welfare
state that is bolstered by radical fundamentalist ideologues and
entrenched in the military death machine industry (aka, by
sanitized monicker, "the military industrial complex").

The truly moral and patriotic citizens in America have been
active and constant protesters of the corruption of our government
throughout these recent decades. The real grass roots movements
have never stopped vigilantly defending the spirit of the U.S.
Constitution and never rested in protesting the militarization of
our police through a senseless "war" of prohibition, the funneling
of public properties and tax revenues to corrupt and criminal
private interests, the unfounded, illegal and murderous wars of
invasion and occupation, the use of our tax money to pay for the
inexcusable sadistic torture of human beings, the religious hate
mongering, the vilifications of human sexuality and sexual
expression, the countless assaults on civil liberties under
false promises of security, and the massive, nation destroying
(10 trillion dollar) deficit debt and economic disaster that
all these cancerous political policies and actions have inevitably
brought down upon us.

By the way, it's easy to recognize the real and honest expressions
of grass roots dissent: Instead of being sponsored and promoted by
private propaganda interests, real dissent is rabidly attacked by
all the self promoting, narcissistic, hate mongering corporate media
outlets. They will be trying to dismiss, marginalize, ridicule and
belittle the freedom fighters in order to fulfill their obligation
of sycophantic support for the militarist corporate welfare policies
that keep them fat, happy and anxious to promote any and all actions
of war, torture and terrorism against the people that their buddies
in the Big Brother Machines of State direct them to. Every good
fascist knows that a shocked, disoriented, bankrupted and terrorized
populace with manufactured delusions of victimhood is easily
manipulated into abandoning their own self interests.

:-)
And, before Mr. P attempts to suppress another discussion by
hypocritically asking what this has to do with GNU Linux and ALE,
I'll point out that several active ALE members on this list have
made sure the freedoms of GNU Linux and Open Source softwares
have been, and continue to be, essential and integral support tools
for many of the real grass roots movements that I've referred to,
most significantly including support for the 14,000+ brave souls
that gathered in Atlanta to defend freedom, civil liberty and
social justice at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum.
:-)

peace
aaron
(aka "Clyde the Frog")

** A recreation of a Faux News sponsored faux protest "Tea Party":
< http://www.tubearoo.com/articles/86549/Cartman_s_Tea_Party.html >

PS:  Sorry, B., but I don't have your incredible self restraint.