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[FYI] "Preserve Your Rights Onlien - Act Now"
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- Subject: [FYI] "Preserve Your Rights Onlien - Act Now"
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:26:45 +0200
- CC: krypto@thur.de
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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