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| DATE | 2003-02-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: [fairuse] Re: a proposed solution
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We are up to 1500 ready Rock throwing Demonstrators?
do you believe that?
If you do, you need to di some research on me...
Ruben
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:05:52AM +0000, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> At 10:41 PM 2/13/2003 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > > None of our proposed actions criticize these speakers. (I have
> >
> > No? Just wait. Tony is in for a suprise next month.
> >
> >Are we talking about the same question? Are you saying you plan to
> >criticize people simply for participating as speakers in the
> >conference?
> >
> >I can support criticism of the conference organizers, but I don't
> >think we should criticize people just for speaking there. We should
> >treat them as potential supporters, not as enemies.
>
>
> What I think he is talking about goes far beyond mere criticism. It sounds
> to me like he is talking about bringing hundreds of people to the
> conference to prevent the speakers from speaking and prevent people from
> attending, or at least to make the attendees go through a gauntlet of
> angry, shouting demonstrators.
>
> It sounds to me like he is talking about a smaller version of what happens
> when the International Monetary Fund meets here, except there is enough
> security to prevent the demonstrators from getting into the IMF meetings
> and methods of getting the attendees in and out. I can imagine police
> inside and outside the meeting hall, demonstrators being carried bodily out
> of the meeting after disrupting the presentations, and police in riot gear
> outside the conference center to deal with the demonstrators in the street.
> Usually in such situations there are some demonstrators who have decided
> to be arrested.
>
> This kind of thing happens on a large scale in DC typically once or twice a
> year. I have no idea how often it happens on a smaller scale.
>
> That's what it sounds like to me. I would like to hear otherwise, but that
> is not what the rhetoric implies.
>
>
> Stan Klein
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