Previous Politech messages about the choir: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04671.html http://www.politechbot.com/p-04667.html Our Bill Purdy Politech archive, for those coming late to the game: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy I've copied some folks at the American Boychoir school. I invite them to reply to the Politech list regarding the lawsuit or Purdy's new domains. -Declan PS: The official site is americanboychoir.org. The critical site is americanboychoir.com. Purdy's domains are <http://www.AmericanBoyChoir.net>AmericanBoyChoir<http://www.AmericanBoyChoir.net>.net and <http://www.AmericanBoysChoir.org>AmericanBoysChoir<http://www.AmericanBoysChoir.org>.org. --- From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdyat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declanat_private> Subject: Internet Free Speech, American BoyChoir, the "Italian Domain Name Bandit", and Declan Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:14:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001E_01C309A2.B6A626C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Dear Declan, I received your emailing containing Paul Levy's overview regarding the American Boychoir's attempts to suppress John Hardwicke's website and to limit his internet free speech. As a victim of child sex abuse by an older male myself, and also as a victim of a sever physical attack of attempted rape by an adult male myself when I was 14 years old, I empathize with Mr. Hardwicke in his struggles. Also, as a life-long Catholic I witnessed with DISGUST for years and years as the courts passively allowed the Catholic Church to DENY, DELAY, and otherwise attempt to DISMISS the complaints of victims of child sex abuse that occurred while these children were in their care. I am disgusted with the American BoyChoir that they would forgo their MORAL RESPONSIBILITY and use the court system to dismiss Mr. Hardwicke's suit and deny Mr. Hardwicke the opportunity to publicly expose the sexual abuse that he allegedly suffered. What is also very disgusting to me is the American BoyChoir's attempts to thwart Mr. Hardwicke's internet free speech rights! As you know, I am a prolife activist who is attempting to speak on the internet about the horrors of abortion (and what I consider to be the ultimate child abuse - i.e. the MURDER of innocent unborn babies). I am currently being subjected to the same type internet-speech-stifling tactics for my criticism of the Washington Post, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and McDonalds for their active participation in supporting abortion through financial and/or editorial support. During my struggle in Federal Court when I was being threatened to be put in JAIL for my "contemptuous" actions in registering TheWashingtonPostHARDASS.com, theWashingtonPostJESUS.com, and many others, a person in Italy read Declan's emails about the U.S. Court's attempt to stifle my internet domain-name speech and registered 52 domain names in Italy - most of which were in VIOLATION of the Federal Court Restraining Order! Although I never met, talked with, or emailed to or from what Declan dubbed "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT", I am SO GRATEFUL to him for his actions. I believe that "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT" did more to PRESERVE my internet free speech rights than any lawyer or any court ruling. Basically what "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT" did was to render the Federal Court preliminary injunction IMPOTENT as U.S. Federal Courts have no jurisdiction in Italy. And Declan deserves MUCH CREDIT too because "The Italian Domain-Name BANDIT" probably never would have heard about the internet free-speech stifling tactics of the Washington Post if not for Declan. Therefore, in the spirit of "The Italian Domain-Name Bandit" and in an effort to help PRESERVE our internet-free-speech rights and to support Mr. Hardwicke, I have purchased (in France) the domain names <http://www.AmericanBoyChoir.net>www.AmericanBoyChoir.net and <http://www.AmericanBoysChoir.org>www.AmericanBoysChoir.org. The American Boys Choir parody website that these new domain names point to has NOTHING at all to do with abortion, but the page was created on a BabySave.com page. The American Boy Choir School is aware of the new domain names and website. I do NOT know Mr. Hardwicke, have never met him, nor have I ever had any phone conversations or emails to or from Mr. Hardwicke. I intend to keep these domain names active until I am sure that Mr. Hardwicke's internet-free-speech (and internet-domain-name-speech) will NOT be stifled by American Boy Choir or by any court. Good luck Mr. Hardwicke! Declan, feel free to publicize any part or all of this email to your readers. Thanks again Declan for all that you do to PRESERVE our Free Speech Rights! Yours truly, Bill Purdy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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