Hi Jurgen;
that is exactly why I wrote my response to the original email of David Boje.
It seems to me to be a terrible situation, an abuse of power and an intrusion into private space.
Without private space the life of the scholar and the artist are alike compromised.
It may not be long before someone is forced to drink hemlock for "corrupting the young".
And the "Patriot Act" is well named if, as Dr Johnson said "Patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel" or as Ambrose Bierce improved on it... “In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.”
A Luta Continua!
David
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Sent: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:14:36 +0200
From: Jürgen Bergmann <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Art's place in organization studies -- finding the middle path
> Hi David,
> I'm shocked about that information concerning surveillance of mails by the
> university. To which extend is reaction possible? Do you really believe that
> the mail you have written could be used against you? Or is that surveillance
> "only" a prevention against terrorisme? Do you feel that this control is
> already terrorisme itself? Does that mean incoming mails are scanned too?
> Is there a mobilisation of concerned people against that contol? If not:
> Why? If yes: How can I or others support that mobilisation?
> I'm also shocked that there are only some few responses to your mail within
> the accorn community!!!
> Is there resignation?
> Why don't you use privat mail? Or does that make no difference?
> This is a subject to speak, to write, to communicate, to publish!
> Art matters!
> Jürgen
>
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