Voices in the Wilderness: Known libertarian fringe kook John Perry Barlow on the WTO attack, and the extinguishment of remaining freedoms that will follow:

I beg you to begin NOW to do whatever you can - whether writing your public officials, joining the ACLU or EFF, taking to the streets, or living visibly free and fearless lives - to prevent the spasm of control mania from destroying the dreams that far more have died for over the last two hundred twenty five years than died this morning.

That decided it; I just bit the bullet and joined the EFF. I had been meaning to do so to make up for donating money to the Recording Racket's total-copy-control fund by buying CDs, and to head off the SSSCA (rest assured that once copy-control policeware is mandatory in all US-market devices, it will become so everywhere else), but the unprecedented opportunity Mr. Bin Laden has handed the fascist lobby clinched it. Never mind that I don't live in the US; we all follow the US's lead sooner or later (and sooner when your Prime Minister is best buddies with the current Resident of the White House). (I'm also a member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, so I am not neglecting the home front.)

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