On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 10:04 +0300, Erez Schatz wrote: > On 29 May 2011 09:20, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Not so much because of the lack of speech but the fact that the man who > > was the ideal of freedom of speech is so easily manipulated. > > Not in the least of sense. The trip is being funded by the > Palestinian, who asked Stallman not to speak in front of an Israeli > crowd. He can refuse, and the whole trip will be cancelled, simple as > that. As he says: ... I can go, and cancel these [the Haifa] speeches, > or not go, and cancel these speeches. > > This is not Elvis Costello signing with an Israeli promoter then > cancelling. If hamakor suggested to fund his visit here, then there > would've been an alternative, a third option. As it stands, he has no > choice in the matter.
of course he has a choice - a choice to give in to their demand, or not to give in to their demand. it's as simple as that. you first define your policy, and then you take the consequences of this policy. there is also a third option: going to the lectures in the territories, and talking about this incident there, as part of his talk about the free-speech nature of free software. --guy _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
