Bob Schroeck Wrote:... Guiliani threatens to veto, ...Full-page ads in Nevada and the Appalachians: "The President wants to keep you from going back to work!"
Bob Schroeck Wrote:... Asteroid mining gets a boost? ...Definitely.
I shouldn't need to mention that StellviaCorp is not in the mining business. Both Moria Mining (gasses) and Rockhounds (heavy metals) would make out well, though.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:...I'm in too good a mood to think that darkly at the moment, sorry.
While I finish this up, anyone want to brainstorm the circumstances around the "Subversive Literature Act of 2009", which is described above as "the abortive 2009 attempt to criminalize the science fiction and fantasy genres"? I'm sure it was a bit more subtle than I make it sound, and might have had a different name which wasn't quite so obviously eeeeeevil. I also envision the entire entertainment industry banding together to tell Congress to go to hell in response to its proposal, among other groups.
However, I'd expect that once the bill is tabled, the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lucasfilms, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and Paramount would remind Congress of the First Amendment - especially if news of the bill breaks near or during Banned Books Week. (If the bill claims that F&SF is "inflammatory speech", citing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio]Brandenburg v. Ohio would also be appropriate.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012