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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Isn't she supposed to be an environmentalist? |
| Date: |
07/16/2003 03:05:01 PM |
| From: |
Dimitri Rotow |
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> But you know the definition of "an environmentalist," don't you?
> It's someone who already has THEIR beach front property.
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> ...or mountain top...or river front...
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I guess Streisand is just one more example of a long line of hypocritical
Hollywood types who do the opposite of what they say they stand for. It
will be amusing to see how long she continues to live in Malibu when Arnold
gets elected after Gray Davis is recalled. :-)
Note that Adelman is fighting back:
See http://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/pressrelease-slapp.html
California, however much it may be hostage at times to political kooks, has
a few very wise things going for it and one of them is a serious law to
discourage people like Streisand from trying to surpress public speech or
participation in the political process. Creating an aerial record of the
coast (subject to *so* much political process as a result of the Coastal
Commission fiasco, etc) is indisputably a public record and public process
participation issue, so it seems to me that Adelman is likely to win his
Anti-SLAPP action against Streisand and the reprehensible swine who are
acting as her attorneys.
As much fun as we might have ridiculing Streisand, the progress of these
cases through the California courts is a very serious matter for all who are
involved in the remote sensing business or who use images in GIS or who
provide software that lets people take advantage of the power of remote
sensing. The Anti-SLAPP statute may be wise, but the interpretation of all
this is ultimately in the hands of (dramatic pause) the *California* court
system, which I suppose terminates in the notoriously unpredictable
California Supreme Court (which can be so disdainful of written law as to
make even the Florida Supreme Court look like a bunch of Solomons
reincarnated) and the equally imperial Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals at the
Federal level (whose motto appears to be "never met a statute we can't
relegislate to taste").
Everyone on this list in the remote-sensing business should ask themselves
if they want their business held hostage by the unpredictability of the
California courts. After all, does anyone want to try to get permission
from every would-be, or has-been "celebrity" to acquire or use an image?
Keep in mind that if the courts decide to do something crazy and support
Streisand, it could be the end even of *municipal* usage of remote sensing.
I'd urge everyone from this list with a collection of California images or
who is a friend of remote sensing to write to Adelman and offer help. No
doubt he has a lot of expert witnesses already but surely knowing he has the
support of a large remote sensing community will be helpful. It would also
be helpful if municipal users can speak about the many important uses of
remote sensing in municipal GIS, etc.
Cheers,
Dimitri
PS: Hey, is it just me or isn't T3 the best Terminator movie yet? :-)
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