Re: [ga] Companion Dispute Proposal to WLS Service

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

Marc Schneiders wrote:

> > In most countries, you are innocent unless proven guilty. What you propose
> > is to decide that somebody is guilty even before committing the action.
> 
> Terrorism, piracy, above all the latter, need to be tackled _before_ the
> vile acts are committed. We cannot allow any chances, that a trademark
> actually gets hurt.

I hope you were joking or being sarcastic in writing that. If not,
methinks you're insane.

A murderer or child molester is treated as innocent until proven guilty
in
many countries, and has some right to due process almost anywhere. You
appear to be claiming that "piracy" against trademark right is so
heinous
a crime that it demands special measures, more severe than those against
murder or child molestation. This is utterly ludicrous.

You might make that case for terrorism. It is at least arguable that,
against such enemies, even democratic nations should go outside their
normal legal principles and resort to arrest without habeas corpus, or
even to assasination. I'm unconvinced, but there are certainly some
strong arguments for that position.

But "terrorism, piracy, above all the latter ...". Even without "above
all", this would be lunacy. With it, it is utterly unbeleivable.
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