[CLUE-Talk] Colorado Senator Wayne Allard

[Brandon N]

I'm interested in helping any way I call, I'm also Faxing Rep Mark
Udall. I've communicated with him many times and he seems to have good
views on most topics I bring up.

Brandon
--- Charlie Oriez <coriez at oriez.org> wrote:
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> On Saturday 15 September 2001 21:37, you wrote:
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> > Fellow Linux Users of Colorado:
> >
> > "History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times
> > of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to
> > endure." - - Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
> 
> "People who sacrifice their liberties for security usually end up 
> with neither liberty nor security" -- Ben Franklin, lots earlier
> 
> "Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people 
> comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators.  It comes 
> from the tendancy on our own shores to centralize power, to trust 
> bureaucracies rather than people." -- George Allen, Governor of 
> Virginia
> 
> > I am gravely concerned because I believe public cryptography, such
> > as GnuPg will become outlawed for the "security of our citizens".
> >
> > I am concerned that the "hacker" operating system Linux will become
> > illegal due to the proposed Security Systems Standards and
> > Certification Act (SSSCA).
> >
> 
> good stories in Wired on the bill by Declan McCullough:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46671,00.html
> 
> 
> You are not the first to reach that conclusion that SSSCA could in 
> fact outlaw linux.  Anyone with contacts in South Carolina should 
> encourage Sen Hollings to desist from introducing it.  The major 
> national I.T. professional organizations are putting together a joint
> 
> letter to Hollings.  I'm coordinating that for AITP, though ACM is 
> taking the lead role in drafting the language and actually getting 
> the letter out the door.  Anyone reading this who is a leader of a 
> local chapter of a national org can contact me off list about what it
> 
> might take to be added as a signatory (assume IEEE, ACM, AITP 
> covered).  
> 
> A similar letter to Allard and Campbell could perhaps be put together
> 
> under CLUE's leadership, if CLUE sees that as part of your role, or 
> under someone else's leadership if not.  I'll work with anyone 
> interested in preparing it, and assist with my local major org 
> contacts.  Diane Degette is on an important House committee on this 
> issue.  Anyone want to meet with her as part of a delegation?
> 
> 
> 
> > We Linux and cryptography users must act now to prevent additional
> > erosion of our individual civil liberties.
> >
> > This week, folks in Colorado want to know "what they can do". 
> > Well, we may not be able to dig through the rubble of the WTC, but
> > we can act now to preserve our liberty during this time of crisis. 
> > I urge you to write Senator Wayne Allard and express your opinion
> > about his "Statement on the Terrorist Attacks in Washington and New
> > York" (link above).
> 
> We need to stop this before it hits the floor of the Senate with the 
> momentum that a committee-passed bill has.  While it is in the 
> drafting and discussion phase, it's easier to derail or fix (as fix 
> is defined in veterinary medicine). 
> 
> 
> 
> - --
> Ich bin ein New Yorker
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