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From: bei@dogface.austin.tx.us (Bob Izenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: re: Repost from Telecom
Message-ID: <e8eD52w164w@dogface.austin.tx.us>
Date: 30 Jun 91 20:10:01 GMT
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david.turrell@f111.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (david turrell) writes:

> However, I don't think that Bill should have rested so much of his 
> case on the plight of those who are anonymous, as his characterizations
> can't be checked.

Bill Vajk has shaken a finger at "you boys down in Texas".  The topic has
been discussed heavily by those to whom the "anonymous" are neighbors,
electronic or physical.  I can't speak for Bill Kennedy, so I can't say
whether he feels that *his* knowing the people involved was enough to
formulate an opinion... ;-)

> I think it's best not to refer to the Secret Service as the "SS".

It is their initials.  If people leave the periods out as a rhetorical
trick, that's life.

> It can be taken to be an attempt to compare them to an organization that
> committed crimes of indescribable magnitude,

Supression of our freedom to publish, electronically or in print, can't
possibly be equated with mass murder, true.  While it's not mass murder,
it is a violation of some basic principles that we've structured our country
on.

> generating sympathy from
> those who think the comparison unwarranted and trivializing something
> truly heinous.

I know that the thing I think I read is not the the thing you thought you
wrote. ;-)
-- Bob

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