Re: More problems for non-US?
> > Expect things to keep getting worse as long as this is not recognized
> > as a free speech issue in the U.S.
Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> wrote:
> What needs to be done? I'll beg, steal and murder to get a ticket to
> Washington to make my views heard.
Hmm.. take a look at
http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Foreign_and_local/Multinational/HTML/19980915_gilc_wassenaar_statement.html
-- this is old, but seems rather pertinent to the current discussion.
A lot of people need to get involved. Good things include:
(1) More court cases like Dan Bernstein's
(http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/)
[Or take a look at other cases in the ITAR_export directory..]
(2) Get Congress involved -- this mostly means getting on the
good side of some committee chairmen, I'd guess:
House Committee on National Security
House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
House Committee on the Judiciary
and its Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
the Communications Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services
Except currently congress is not in session and I don't know what
committees will be formed in the new congress, and I'm not expert enough
on congress to make a good guess about who will be the chairmen on these
new committees. [And then there's the whole aspect of "getting on their
good side" which includes stuff like financial, political, moral, and
popular "pressure" and "bribery" (push and pull).]
(3) In principle there might also be something that can be done on
the executive branch side of things -- vote in a libertarian (or
other?) president, I guess.
Finally, if someone really does want to come to Washington, I can at
least offer a place to stay and some food to eat, to help you keep down
your expenses here. We don't have much, but we do have a guest room.
[But don't expect any political activism to be easy.]
--
Raul
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