[sklyarov-chicago] from Adobe

[Michael Cannon]

You folks really don't understand how this workded, do
you?

Adobe ACTIVELY lobbied for the law.  They continue to
lobby for its continuation.  They pressured the US
Attorney to divert investigatory resources from
investigation of things like the RedAlert worm, the
SirCAM virus, terrorists and armed bank robbery to
pursue this to the conclusion we are at now.  They had
another avenue, considering they began this a month
before Dmitry entered the country:  instead of the US
Attorney, they could have opposed Dmitry's entry into
the US by protesting to the State Department.  Dmitry
would have had his visa cancelled and would never have
been able to come here.

Do you see that the arrest and illegal detention of
this man was their purpose all along?

I'll say it again:  they (Adobe) could have opposed
Dmitry's entry into the country.   He would still be
at home with his family!  See?

BTW, do I need to start providing web links to this
stuff, or maybe compose a seperate web page?

Mike
--- Steve Stearns <sterno@bigbrother.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Michael Cannon:
> > > Tough.  They brought this on themselves, when
> they
> > > pressured Mueller.  Their stock price is
> intimately
> > > tied to .pdf and Acrobat.
> > 
> > I acknowledge that. But I think a protest that is
> focusing on a small
> > number of unified goals is better than a group
> that shouts 5 different
> > things that to the uninitiated may seem unrelated.
> Also, boycotting
> > Adobe right now does not help us meet our
> immediate goals.
> 
> Agreed.  Adobe got the ball rolling but at least
> they've had the good
> sense to back off.  Let's give them some credit for
> that (maybe not much),
> and focus our attention on the real issue at hand, a
> really bad law being
> enforce in an even worse way.
> 
> ---Steve
> 


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