Chuck is a reasonably prominent anarchist in the Washington DC area: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=chuck0 Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03859.html -Declan --- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:51:07 -0400 From: Chuck Munson <chuckat_private> Subject: Ad Council creates pro-liberty advertisements (very good) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit These PSAs are really wacked out. They are supposed to be fictional depictions of life in a country other than the U.S., but they are incredibly hypocritical! For example, the "Library" PSA shows a young guy asking for a book from a librarian, who informs him that it is no longer available and then asks him why he wants to read it. They pan the library and all these government agents pop out of hiding. Of course, as many of you know, the U.S. government would like to see this become a reality, with some kind of TIPS programs for libraries. The FBI is already requesting information from libraries and libraries have this annoying habit of monitoring and controlling the surfing habits of patrons at library terminals. I looked at another PSA, "Arrest," which shows some guy being pulled over by the police and then being arrested for having the wrong reading material. Fact it, activists and other people have routinely been detained at airports for having the wrong reading material. Having radical books in your car has frequently been a pretext for arrest and, at the least, harassment. Don't get me started about what happens to Americans who commit intellectual property "thoughtcrimes" against corporations. Chuck0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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