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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: Autodialing Falwell - a different perspective
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 09:24:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 09:24:43 1986
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In article <1225@mtuxo.UUCP>, kwmc@mtuxo.UUCP (k.cochran) writes:
> >	He says it's not over yet.
> >	``I'm encouraging all hackers to reach out and touch Jerry Falwell,''
> > he said. ``If he's the Moral Majority, this is a good way of taking a vote.''
> 
> I cannot find words to express how senseless I think this auto-dialing
> prank is.  A man who supposedly supports the American Civil Liberties Union
> is performing illegal acts to suppress Jerry Falwell's right to freedom of
> speech.
> 
> His encouragement to other computer 'hackers' to do the same is probably
> also illegal, and is NOT 'a good way of taking a vote. It allows one person
> to vote AGAINST, 2880 times a day, and no-one to vote for.
> 
> Is this the kind of democracy he wants to live in ?
> 
> 		Ken Cochran		mtuxo!kwmc

I agree. In spite of my dislike for Falwell and co., and of the KKK, I think
that they should have the right to free speech, and strongly reject attempts
to interfere with that right.

Padraig Houlahan.