Urgent: Parole Leonard Pelletier
US citizens and residents: call for parole
for Leonard
Pelletier.
This is an actionnetwork.org "send a letter" campaigns with a single,
fixed destination. It normally runs nonfree JavaScript code. Here's
how you can sign it while using LibreJS to block nonfree JavaScript
code from running.
The first step, I have done for you. I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign's
URL. That parameter directs the server not to add unnecessary material that depends on JavaScript.
Following that link should show you a page that starts with the message, `Letter campaigns will
not work without JavaScript!' But that message mostly refers to material that `?nowrapper=true'
has suppressed.
In that page, fill in the personal information in the box on the right side of the page. That's
how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. You will get a page that does not work at all, but by
editing its URL in the browser's address bar, you can finish sending your letter.
First, if `&redirect' appears in the address bar, delete that and everything after it, until the
end of the URL you see. Then, unconditionally, add `&nowrapper=true'. Then type ENTER to make
the browser access the modified URL.
This will give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. In that page you can
edit the text of your letter, and send it.
That step, editing the URL and visiting it, is the only additional work needed to sign with
nonfree JavaScript code blocked. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort to stop some
unjust, and potentially malicious, software from running on your computer.
This method works for letter campaigns that send letters to a fixed destinee, the same destinee
for all senders. I have posted this campaign, and these instructions, because it is of that
kind.
Alas, there is no workaround for the letter campaigns that send to "your elected
representatives." That problem is caused by something outside actionnetwork's control. The
nonfree JavaScript for those campaigns comes from the officials' own web sites in the official
web sites of Congress, not from actionnetwork.org, and I know of no way to bypass it, and no way
to reach them digitally. All I can do is phone them.
It's sad and ironic that our elected representatives require their constituents to run nonfree
software to communicate digitally with them. I do not hold them personally responsible for this
wrong, because they are surely not aware of the issue. But I can't close my eyes to its
presence and let it run on my computer.