Re: [ga] Request to ban Basque nationalist sites via DNS

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

This one is a wierd one.  Had it not been for a banning and eviction my 
ancestors would not have moved, from the Basque Highland, to an emerald isle 
and then been forced to move to America where I am pleased to have been born 
on a 7,000 foot mountain above the Grand Canyon.

My point is that if you force an issue like this you create the will and 
desire to route around.  You do not solve problems of heritage by hiding 
information.  Embracing it head on with information is the only answer.
I am very proud of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.
Issues of feelings and desires and right and wrong do not desolve by 
stopping the voice, they dissolve by hearing the voice.

How can we move out of the hatred that spurns violent acts unless we listen 
to the voices that create violence.  Banning of any sort is wrong because it 
cuts off the dialogue that may create an understanding.  It is the 
embracement of words and the time to listen that will win a war on any front 
becuase the war will not start.

We are now capable of such wonderful acts of understanding and 
communication.  Let us use them in a peaceful and rightful manner to create 
dialogue and learn from one another.

I am working hard on projects between the USA and Vietnam, where we fought a 
war half a lifetime ago.  But neither side is banning information.  Oh the 
words are frightful at times but the communication stays open and so 
understanding and cooperation are being achieved. Hatefullness and contempt 
are being aired and the air is becoming less frigid.

Please let our Spanish breathren allow their Basque people to speak and then 
speak back to them.  Open dialogue and open minds come from ease of 
communication, please let it be so.

Sincerely,
eric

> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, at 17:37 [=GMT+0200], Alexander Svensson wrote:
> 
>> >Spain steps up pressure on Basque militants at home and abroad
>> (...)
>> >Spanish prosecutors Friday also requested Judge Garzon to apply to
>> >the Australian government and The Internet Corporation for Assigned
>> >Names and Numbers, based in the United States, to ban Batasuna web
>> >sites including www.batasuna.org, www.euskal-herritarrok.org et
>> >www.batasuna-barakaldo.org.
>> >
>> >The Spanish press reported that Batasuna's site,www.batasuna.org, was
>> >registered by an Australian company
>>
>> [Melbourne IT is the registrar]
>>
>> >with a Californian server,
>>
>> [VisualRoute actually points to Virginia]
>>
>> >administered from Bayonne in France.
>>
>> AFP via Yahoo (http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020830/1/329uu.html), found
>> via
>> http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=929&mode=&order=0&thold=0
>>
>> Batasuna is a Basque nationalist party and the political arm of
>> the Basque terrorist group ETA. It has recently been suspended
>> by an anti-terrorist judge and the Spanish parliament voted
>> overwhelmingly for an indefinite ban.
> 
> And are you in favour of such use (or abuse) of the DNS? Does it help
> to fight terrorism?
> 
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