[FYI] "Preserve Your Rights Onlien - Act Now"

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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/16/1647231

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Preserve Your Rights Onlien - Act Now

Posted by Roblimo on Sunday September 16, @01:54PM from the call-to-
action dept.  

Imagine Slashdot closing its Your Rights Online section because you 
no longer have any rights online, and find many of your other rights 
severely curtailed, too. Saturday a small group of people, including 
U.S. Representative Lynn Rivers, from Michigan's 13th Congressional 
District, met in the University of Maryland Baltimore County [UMBC] 
library to discuss ways to maintain Americans' civil liberties 
despite major pressure to curtail them in the name of "fighting 
terrorism." The government does listen, you know, if you speak to the 
right people in the right way. So here's a guide, a HOWTO, if you 
will, that will teach you how to lobby effectively for your 
Constitutional rights.  

Let's start with one simple and rather sad truth: You are going to be 
less free next week than you were last week.  

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