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[Karl Schaffarczyk]

>
>There's a good article in today's Canberra Times from Peter Martin, 
>discussing the Hew Raymond Griffiths sentencing, and the odious 
>comparisons between theft at gunpoint and copyright infringement (my 
>choice of words to describe these two acts is deliberate).
>
>Not a great deal of discussion of our loss of sovereignty as a nation 
>with the implementation of the Australia-United States Free Trade 
>Agreement, but perhaps it will start the ball rolling and make 
>legislators think long and hard of how to make useful amendments to
>what must surely be a most draconian act.
>
iT


Ivan, Linkers,
I have written to my local member, and have included a press clipping 
with my letter. At this stage my local MP has written to the AG, 
where my ministerial response will come from.
I'll share it when it comes in.

I put it to you that if every member of this list wrote a brief 
letter to their MP asking some hard(er) questions: eg: I live in 
Australia, If I commit an offence under US law in Australia, can they 
extradite me? Can you explain why an Australian citizen who has never 
been to the US before has been extradited there?
etc etc
If this was the action of every linker, it might just hit the radar 
enough to become an election issue.

Does anyone know how to stir the media up into a frenzy about such 
things without an ex-model in a bali gaol?
Maybe Hew Raymond Griffiths needed to be a young woman, with big... 
well, yes....

Just a thought.

Karl


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