<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Ole Husgaard <pirat@sparre.dk><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></b><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviado:</span></b> jueves, 27 de noviembre, 2008 0:57:22<br>> Today the EU Council of ministers are meeting to pass their proposal of the telecom package.<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br>> I have done a poorly written draft of a press release here:<br>> <a href="http://int.piratenpartei.de/Telecom_Package_press_release_draft" target="_blank">http://int.piratenpartei.de/Telecom_Package_press_release_draft</a><br>><br>> Please remember: Time is important when we react to events like this.<br>> Please
act fast, as soon as they have passed the proposal.<br>><br>> This can give us a lot of positive publicity, if we remember to include the text of these two<br>> amendments in the press release. From the text alone it is obvious that something is horribly<br>> wrong.<br><br>As I said tonight at IRC, Telecom Package is so huge, so complex, that I find impossible to release a press note analyzing it properly -i.e., analyzing not only its threats to our rights and libertes, but also how it affects competitiveness in the Telecom market, etc-.<br><br>If Amendments 138 -in fact, not <span style="font-style: italic;">Bono Amendment</span> but <span style="font-style: italic;">Trautmann re-Amendment</span>- and 166 are dropped by the Council, a Second Reading in Europarliament would be done; thus, apart from a mere press release denouncing just the rights & liberties issues, I think that the best thing we can do is to get both documents of
Europarliament's First Reading and of Council's decision, and prepare a deep analysis of which texts would reach Europarliament in Second Reading<br><br>> Both amendments 138 and 166, which were passed by Parliament, have been removed, making it<br>> possible to censor the net and cut off people from it without juducial oversight.<br>><br>> In Denmark, local pressure to ensure this would not be passed became void after a minister of our<br>> government lied to our parliament, saying that amendment 138 was still present.<br><br>Watch out! Amendment 138 is a bad one; it's true that not having it is even worse, however having it is not the solution; the solution would be only an amendment which totally forbids any kind of censorship without prior warrant; otherwise, <span style="font-weight: bold;">having Amendment 138 passed would be like losing one arm while not having it would be like losing both arms and both legs. Yes, it's true: the
second choice is worse than the first one; however, ¿why do we have to </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">lose one arm</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> -</span>i.e., to have censorship without prior warrant authorized in cases where governments state that public security <span style="font-style: italic;">may be</span> compromised/endangered-<span style="font-weight: bold;">?</span><br><br>> Tere are still strong rumors that they will try to avoid this going back to the Parliament for a<br>> second reading, despite the major changes.<br><br>They may try though I think they wouldn't be able. If they achieve it, of course we should release a quick press release; however, otherwise, I recommend to focus on prepare a PPI campaign aimed to that Second Reading -as if tomorrow the text is going to be voted-, there is not enough time to make the whole thing-.
Regards,<br><br><br> Carlos Ayala<br> ( Aiarakoa )<br><br>
Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br></div></div></div><br>
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