[ga] Let tyrants take notice:

[Brian Appleby <brian@applebymarketing.com>]

The e-Bill of Rights

Few understand what the many may suffer.

Access to the Internet is an inalienable right of the people -- all the
people.  Events now swirl and confuse even the hardiest of die-hard
evangelists and prophets but we must collectively make one thing clear:
we will not sit and watch the elite few wrest control from the people, we
will not stand by as our rights are trampled and destroyed.  We have
power in numbers and we have truth, justice, and freedom as wind in our
sails. 

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union of minds and hearts,
mandate the need for freedom and fairness in our ability to enjoy the
benefits of the on-line world of the Internet.  We mandate freedom
of speech, freedom of access, and freedom of will to let the
powers-that-be fully understand our needs and motivations.  We do
not ask!  We are the people who the Internet serves.  We are
where true power does reside.  

We claim full rights to organize ourselves and politicize the issues we
deem important.  We claim the right to enjoy the full protections
offered to all for accessibility, use, and indeed dependence on the
Internet as an important part of our lives and livelihoods.  

Our right to accessibility includes the protection and un-fettered use of
domain name system addresses which we hold and hold dearly as extensions
of our personal, political, and commercial selves.  

While we recognize and respect the traditional intellectual property laws
and protections, we take exception to all attempts to modify or extend
these traditions into newly mis-formed mutations which unfairly impinge
upon the rights of individuals and the common masses.  We will not
stand idly by and allow these actions to go un-noticed or allow the
perpetrators to go un-punished.  We will fight if we need to
fight.  We will win.  

We are the people and we have spoken!