To all my internet earthlings:
Internet Bill of Rights
1) The internet is an earth library open to all earthlings.
2) The internet is a global effort by earthlings to unite in a common purpose and vision and hence belongs to no one country, state, government, or any other earthling authority.
3) All earthlings should have access to the internet.
4) The global library, the internet, is open and free to all.
5) Listening, viewing, and experiencing anything on the internet is a cultural and education right for all earthlings.
6) The internet is an educational tool for all earthlings and can not be restricted in use.
7) No earthling can be placed in prison for accessing or sharing ideas and information over the global library.
8) Business can only use the internet to sell to earthlings, not to police earthlings' use of the internet.
9) Distribution of an earthling's ideas obtained thru the internet for financial gain is not acceptable behavior on the internet, but however, spreading the ideas and work of an earthling over the internet is not prohibited because all creation is the right of all creation.
10) All creation can be made into digital information, including the DNA genome, the Mona Lisa, the Milky Way Galaxy, and so on. Therefore all creation can be copyrighted to a creator, hence no earthling can claim a right over ideas, thoughts, art, education, or anything in digital form.
These are the rights of earthlings. These truths we hold self-evident. One love, one people, one earth.....
Puerto Rico Points of Interest
Monday, July 07, 2003
This article from bbc.com shows the fruitless powers of my little island...
Death penalty case stirs Puerto Rico
By BBC's Stephen Gibbs
A murder trial in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is prompting protests over the extent of United States federal influence on the American territory. US prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the case, although capital punishment is banned by the island's constitution. The trial involves a gruesome murder. The two defendants are accused of kidnapping a grocer as he left his store in the island's capital, San Juan, one night in 1998. They demanded $1m ransom, but when they found the police were investigating the case they are alleged to have shot the man, hacked his body to bits and left the pieces strewn along a roadside.
What has alarmed Puerto Ricans is not just the details of the case itself, but the fact that it has prompted an attempt by the US Government to impose the death penalty on their island. Puerto Rico - a self-governing commonwealth of the US - banned capital punishment in 1929. But American prosecutors have successfully argued that this case is serious enough to enable federal law to be applied. The decision appears to be opposed by the majority of Puerto Ricans. Religious and community organisations have vowed to fight it to the very end, describing capital punishment as an affront to their culture.
But US prosecutors seem unmoved, even giving details of where the two men will die if successfully convicted. They would be transferred to a prison in the US state of Indiana and killed by lethal injection.
Death penalty case stirs Puerto Rico
By BBC's Stephen Gibbs
A murder trial in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is prompting protests over the extent of United States federal influence on the American territory. US prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the case, although capital punishment is banned by the island's constitution. The trial involves a gruesome murder. The two defendants are accused of kidnapping a grocer as he left his store in the island's capital, San Juan, one night in 1998. They demanded $1m ransom, but when they found the police were investigating the case they are alleged to have shot the man, hacked his body to bits and left the pieces strewn along a roadside.
What has alarmed Puerto Ricans is not just the details of the case itself, but the fact that it has prompted an attempt by the US Government to impose the death penalty on their island. Puerto Rico - a self-governing commonwealth of the US - banned capital punishment in 1929. But American prosecutors have successfully argued that this case is serious enough to enable federal law to be applied. The decision appears to be opposed by the majority of Puerto Ricans. Religious and community organisations have vowed to fight it to the very end, describing capital punishment as an affront to their culture.
But US prosecutors seem unmoved, even giving details of where the two men will die if successfully convicted. They would be transferred to a prison in the US state of Indiana and killed by lethal injection.
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