Thursday, October 28, 2004

I'm continuing to consider the apparent blocking of georgewbush.com from foreign IPs...

The more I think about this, the more I get pissed off. The Libertarian in me realizes that, as private property (though for one of the biggest issues in the public's eye right now), the owner/admin of Dubya's re-election campaign site is free to do whatever he/she chooses with the site. However, the purpose of the site is to inform people about one of their choices for the President of the United States. Believe it or not, chuck@georgewbush.com, there could be Americans in other countries who want info about your candidate.

In the interest of maintaining some amount of freedom for public discourse and decision-making, click this link to access the georgewbush.com website from around the world. Hopefully that will work! If that link doesn't work, try one of the other free proxy servers listed here. Not all of the links listed there will work and since some are overseas, some of them will be blocked. However, give it your best shot. To borrow a line from Dubya...

"There ought to be limits to freedom."

-George W. Bush, 1999 (Hint: It's near the bottom)

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