<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Checks and balances</div><div>are the governing</div><div>practice in the US</div><div>Government under the</div><div>US Constitution. </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">A person is liable</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">only if he or she</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">proposes armed action.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier
New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I propose nothing of</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">the sort. I did not</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">even support the </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">confrontational act</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">of Occupy Wall Street.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">That act, I said,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">violated the 3rd</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Amendment. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">When I have the time,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I'll sign a petition,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">but I don't believe</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">that petitions do more</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">than encourage an</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">intransigence in the</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">party petitioned.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">You worry, maybe rightly,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">and I wonder just how to</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">proceed. or where.</div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Peter</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "> </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Von:</span></b> w <w@thing.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">An:</span></b> pffend Fend <pffend@yahoo.de>
<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">CC:</span></b> "thingist@mailman.thing.net" <thingist@mailman.thing.net>; "lucia.dellapaolera@gmail.com" <lucia.dellapaolera@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gesendet:</span></b> 1:11 Donnerstag, 12.Dezember 2013<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Betreff:</span></b> Re: [thingist] Petition by Writers Against Mass Surveillance<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find<br>something there to hang him. <br><br>-- Cardinal Richelieu <br><br><br>Peter:<br><br>You wrote ten lines. <br><br>Lines including filter keywords like "retaliate" and "counter-attack."<br><br>On Yahoo!<br><br>Don't you know this triggers terror alert level cookie monster?<br><br>I am getting worried about you.<br><br>Wolfgang<br><br><br>Thu, 2013-12-12 at 01:28 +0000, pffend Fend wrote:<br>> I AM DOING A BOOK<br>> ON
SURVEILLANCE OF<br>> THE STATE BY ARTISTS<br>> <br>> <br>> WE RETALIATE.<br>> <br>> <br>> TO PETITION IS<br>> POINTLESS. <br>> <br>> <br>> IT ONLY STRENGTHENS<br>> THE STATE.<br>> <br>> <br>> COUNTER-ATTACK.<br>> <br>> <br>> PETER<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ______________________________________________________________________<br>> Von: w <<a ymailto="mailto:w@thing.net" href="mailto:w@thing.net">w@thing.net</a>><br>> An: thingist <<a ymailto="mailto:thingist@mailman.thing.net" href="mailto:thingist@mailman.thing.net">thingist@mailman.thing.net</a>> <br>> Gesendet: 9:54 Mittwoch, 11.Dezember 2013<br>> Betreff: [thingist] Petition by Writers Against Mass Surveillance<br>> <br>> <br>> Considering what's at stake I urge you to consider signing it!<br>> <br>> Wolfgang<br>> <br>> <br>> <a
href="http://www.change.org/petitions/a-stand-for-democracy-in-the-digital-age-3" target="_blank">http://www.change.org/petitions/a-stand-for-democracy-in-the-digital-age-3</a><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> thingist mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:thingist@mailman.thing.net" href="mailto:thingist@mailman.thing.net">thingist@mailman.thing.net</a><br>> <a href="https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/thingist" target="_blank">https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/thingist</a><br>> <br>> <br>> <br><br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>