Posted on 05/20/2013 8:49:26 AM PDT by marktwain
A few have criticized how quickly I responded to the DDTC and began participating in their regulatory process. It is said I should have stood and fought if I believed in keeping the files free, instead of complying. This compliance has been viewed as some kind of ultimate one, as if I don’t intend to do anything else.
“No takedowns, ever.” Was a motto I had built into my vision of DEFCAD.com, not DEFCAD.org, and it referred to a strategy for dealing with intellectual property claims and social pressure- this is NOT the strategy DD/DEFCAD.org can adopt with the Department of State. It seems we may have to have our rights declared in court to simply keep developing gun files to put into the public domain. DD’s right to exist is being challenged.
DD has maintained counsel for many months, and it happens that my strategy is not to just have DEFCAD seized and DD sued out of existence. No, as ever, I think DD/DEFCAD can win. The Liberator was a victory. DEFCAD serving near a million files is a victory. Letting the State Department get that global spotlight was a victory.
The Internet was asked to choose between guns and the control of information. Guess what it chose? We created an important moment for understanding a future with 3D Printing, and the Liberator is rightly everywhere.
Now the demonstration is over, and the hard work of having all our rights preserved is just beginning. ITAR might cover 3DP technical data for generations if DD doesn’t intelligently challenge this assertion of authority.
These politicians have looked like absolute monsters in the vacuum.
I will not apologize for knowing how to choose the battle.
I’m a big fan of this guy. He sounds like one smart dude who understands liberty.
One guy doesn't defeat the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex all by himself or overnight.
/johnny
He is smart, he is about to become a lawyer, and I am sure he has excellent advisors.
Here is the Gun Watch link as a backup:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/cody-wilson-explains-defense.html
I don’t know what this guy is going to do in the future, but I will be happy to see. He has brains. One of the problems with conservatives is that we don’t choose our battles. We let liberals choose the battles and we respond (usually at a disadvantage).
Think of any successful general in history. Did they routinely let the enemy choose the time and place to fight?
I do not think that the problem is that we do not have smart people who know when and how to fight.
It is that in the past, the MSM controlled what battles were to be fought, and defined the battlespace for the most part.
Cody Wilson is all new media based, which is why he is able to control the battlespace much better.
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