[IP] more on H1B visas - About more than money?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Anthony Watson <atrigueiro@yahoo.com>
Date: November 21, 2006 12:38:38 PM EST
To: "W. Craig Trader" <craig@trader.name>
Cc: Anthony Watson <atrigueiro@yahoo.com>, dave@farber.net
Subject: H1B visas - About more than money?
Reply-To: atrigueiro@yahoo.com

In my paranoid heart, I cannot stop the whispering voices that the  
wealthy and powerful are annoyed by how much power "techies" really  
have.

Would the government and ATT be in court now for their illegal  
wiretapping without a techie whistleblower.  Would an H1B visa holder  
have blown the whistle?  Probably not, he is a foreigner and he knows  
it.  The powers-that-be can control the H1B visa holder for he has  
not grown up and been educated about the rights of the individual as  
laid out by our Constitution.

There is at least the possibility that this is about more than  
money.  Dr. Farber and his peers probably have many stories about how  
the DARPA-net would never have morphed into the Internet without  
freedom-loving "techies" battling ferociously in the backrooms and  
boardrooms to make it happen.

Solidarity,
~aw


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