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From: craig@b11.ingr.com (Craig Presson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: CPSR vs. EFF
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.211940.19392@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 21:19:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.184003.22787@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, samuel@shemp.cs.wisc.edu (Samuel Bates) writes:
|> >In article <9269@hsv3.UUCP> mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
|> >>
|> >>     "The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
|> >>     have taken out an advertisement in the West Coast edition
|> >>     of the New York Times protesting the use of computer
|> >>     technology in the war with Iraq."
|> >>
|> >>This does tend to support my off-the-cuff characterization of CPSR.  I
|> >>suspect a fair percentage of those who support what EFF is doing find
|> >>this sort of thing utterly cretinous. 
[...]
|> So that people can see what it is that is being attacked here, I am posting
|> the advertisement in question; it appeared in the June 18th edition.
|> 
|> -----------
|> 
|> "WE'VE SEEN SMART BOMBS.  LET'S SEE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
|> 
[...]
|> -----------
|> You may still object to this statement, but please do so knowing what it says.
|> 
|> 						--Samuel Bates
|> 						  Chair, CPSR-Madison
OK, thanks for clearing that up. We can all now see more clearly
that this had no relation whatever to the EFF or its charter.

So far the EFF is doing a good job of staying within its competence
and away from partisan politics per se.

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