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From: kwmc@mtuxo.UUCP (k.cochran)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.legal,net.misc
Subject: Autodialing Falwell - a different perspective
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 09:53:26 EST
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>	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