Checks and balances are the governing practice in the US Government under the US Constitution.
A person is liable only if he or she proposes armed action. I propose nothing of the sort. I did not even support the confrontational act of Occupy Wall Street. That act, I said, violated the 3rd Amendment.
When I have the time, I'll sign a petition, but I don't believe that petitions do more than encourage an intransigence in the party petitioned.
You worry, maybe rightly, and I wonder just how to proceed. or where.
Peter
________________________________ Von: w w@thing.net An: pffend Fend pffend@yahoo.de CC: "thingist@mailman.thing.net" thingist@mailman.thing.net; "lucia.dellapaolera@gmail.com" lucia.dellapaolera@gmail.com Gesendet: 1:11 Donnerstag, 12.Dezember 2013 Betreff: Re: [thingist] Petition by Writers Against Mass Surveillance
Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him.
-- Cardinal Richelieu
Peter:
You wrote ten lines.
Lines including filter keywords like "retaliate" and "counter-attack."
On Yahoo!
Don't you know this triggers terror alert level cookie monster?
I am getting worried about you.
Wolfgang
Thu, 2013-12-12 at 01:28 +0000, pffend Fend wrote:
I AM DOING A BOOK ON SURVEILLANCE OF THE STATE BY ARTISTS
WE RETALIATE.
TO PETITION IS POINTLESS.
IT ONLY STRENGTHENS THE STATE.
COUNTER-ATTACK.
PETER
Von: w w@thing.net An: thingist thingist@mailman.thing.net Gesendet: 9:54 Mittwoch, 11.Dezember 2013 Betreff: [thingist] Petition by Writers Against Mass Surveillance
Considering what's at stake I urge you to consider signing it!
Wolfgang
http://www.change.org/petitions/a-stand-for-democracy-in-the-digital-age-3
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