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From: phil hunt <philh@cabalamat.org>
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On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:54 pm, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:31, phil hunt wrote:
> > This is true. It seems to me trhat there's been very strong public
> > pressure, from groups like CDR and Eurolinux/FFII, and *still* they are
> > going ahead with this nonsense, even though they must know that the
> > vast majority of people who care about this law are against it.
> > This suggests to me that perhaps our tactics are wrong. Is there
> > anything that we're not doing now that perhaps we could be doing?
>[...]
> > Any ideas anyone?
>
> I don't want to play the enemy's tactics,

I want to use whatever tactics will be successful, regardless of whether
people I don't like use them too.

> or I'd have nothing to dreally
> distinguish myself from it. So what we've got to do is continue trying,
> and incentivating as many people as possible to do this.
>
> Maybe it's time for another petition (this time a paper based one),
> where we can more easily drag people to really sign it.

Interestingly, there's a provision in the draft European constitution
whereby the Commission must consider any proposal signed by a million
people (of course, they could consider it, and then rejkect it).

-- 
Phil
"If only sarcasm could overturn bureaucracies" 
   -- NTK, commenting on www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_29.html

