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kauer@pcug.org.au (Karl Auer) writes:

>Grab it. Read it. Weep that our legislators can waste so much time listening 
>and then demonstrate so clearly that they have heard nothing.

We've been railroaded.  I am profoundly depressed by the whole bloody
exercise. I don't think we could have put up a much better front, and
they ignored the lot of us.  The only effect I personally seem to have
had on them is the highly risible recommendation 2 - I can just
imagine constable plod carting me off to the bin because I dared to
transmit some cleartext!

I'll participate in one more round of letter-writing, and I strenuously
urge everyone else here to commit *ink* to *paper* - on-line
communications have no effect at all on our "representatives". Well,
actually, so far nothing, including large numbers of sensible people
telling them how things are in detail and in person, seems to have had
an effect on them. But, sure as shooting, email will fall on deaf eyes.

Ah, hell, the game is rigged. The only way we're going to get any real
representation in government is by putting someone there to do the
work.  Say ...  Karl? You already live in Canberra - would you like to
run for the senate?  The pay is good, the work is easy, and I think
you've got a fantastic campaign tool right here in this little ol'
newsgroup. If EFA were to form a political party to push online (and
real world) freedoms, then I think we could get you on a lot of
talk-shows ...  maybe all of them. Even if we didn't win a seat, we
could still embarrass the bastards in power into taking a less
draconian position.

What about it - is this a practical idea? Maybe not Karl if he doesn't
feel up to it (and not me - I may not even be in the country next year)
but someone who knows their stuff? Michael? Kim? What's involved in
making something like this happen?

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