Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdcsu!dmcanzi
From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Changes to the monthly postings (for rec.humor.funny)
Message-ID: <5493@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 89 07:58:55 GMT
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
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In article <493@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>If you hadn't noticed, the JEDR affair never made it to the courts. It
>was 'tried' and argued in the media, at MIT and Waterloo U., and of
>course on Usenet. Explicit copyright wouldn't have changed a thing.

It's not at all clear to me that the courts aren't or won't be
involved as a result of JEDR's actions.  JEDR and friends did not just
babble to the press, they also contacted: (1) the police, (2) the
Canadian Jewish Congress, and (3) the Canadian Human Rights
Commission.  According to the K-W Record, a spokesman for the police
said nothing in the criminal code seemed to apply.  A spokesman for
the Canadian Jewish Congress said they were looking into what they
could do about the matter, and a spokesman for the Canadian Human
Rights Commission came up with a section of the Canadian Human Rights
act that they might be able to use as a basis for legal action.

I don't know what, if anything, the CJC and the CHRC have decided to
do, but just because we haven't been hearing any explosions lately
doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a battle going on.  I don't
know what Brad meant when he said that we are soon going to find out
that the battle is escalating, but I don't necessarily interpret it, as
somebody else did, as a threat from Brad.

JEDR and his friends have attempted to get Brad fired from his job,
destroy his reputation through "trial by media", get him into trouble
with the human rights authorities, and get him thrown in jail.  All for
a joke that was, at most, mildly offensive.  I'd say that JEDR and his
fellow terrorists are real good at escalation, wouldn't you?

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