🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2n643s$5vp@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:
>In <CnBC3I.863@reptiles.org> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) writes:
>
>>if the police decided to seized the operator's equipment, they are out of
>>business.  they might get their equipment back, but not likely in the
>>same shape it was in before. (remember Steve Jackson Games?)
>
>>the operators were not bowing to goverment pressure, but cowering under the
>>fear of police action.
>
>Jim, where were you? We *won* the Steve Jackson's games thing. The 
> real horror of the SJG raid is not that it is an individual example
>of egregious governmental intrusion into the lives of private
>citizens, but the fact that this illegal intrusion has become the
>backbone of arguments in favor of letting the government infringe on
>freedom of speech.
>-- 
>Clay Shirky


The question is: is it worth losing your equipment, revenue, the jobs of your
employees, a hundred thouhsand in legal fees and possibly your entire
financial existance just to be able to tell the government to SHOVE IT in the
hopes that they find out that YOU WERE RIGHT two years later?

You'd better have deep pockets in the meantime.
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