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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.legal,net.misc
Subject: Re: Autodialing Falwell - a different perspective
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 09:23:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 09:23:01 1986
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In article <11434@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> spp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Stephen P Pope) writes:
>
>
>> 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
>> etc.
>> Is this the kind of democracy he wants to live in ?
>> 
>> 		Ken Cochran		mtuxo!kwmc
>
>Have you ever heard of "civil disobedience" Ken?  

Do you know what "civil disobedience " is, steve?  In case you don't,
here's what Blacks Law Dictionary says:

civil disobedience:  A form of lawbreaking employed to demonstrate the
injustice or unfairness of a particular law and indulged in
deliberately to focus attention on the allegedly undesirable law.

>    Civil disobedience is an important part of democracy.

Whatever happened to the principle, "I don't agree with anything you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."  Isn't *that*
an important part of democracy?

	regards,
		Charli