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From: root@uisc1.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FCC?  U.S.Mail.? (Re: JJ's Revenge -- Part II)
Summary: JJ (ad nauseam)
Message-ID: <75@uisc1.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 01:40:32 GMT
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In article <3132@edm.UUCP>, steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
> 
> I think, however, that it is useful to stomp on people that do things like
> what JJ did, before the FCC decides to regulate things pre-emptively.
> Don't think that the FCC don't know about us: I'd be rather surprised if
> there were no USENET sites within the FCC right now.  It's better that they
> know now that we're willing to help them than for us to find out that they're
> trying trying to regulate us because of a flowering of jerks like JJ.

I am about to write something that I would venture to say 99% of readers
will take the wrong way. Go ahead, flame away. I'm ignoring it. :-)

What I am reading here is that we should "stomp" on someone like JJ, who
has not done anything illegal (any proof to the contrary - not emotional
claptrap but hard statute or binding precedent - would be welcomed), yet
we should infringe on his freedom of expression, which has been guaranteed
to him under the constitution, so that the federal government, whose sole
purpose it is to enforce this constitution, will not come in and illegally
violate our right to self expression.

About 40 years ago there were a group of people who did that also. In
fear of being hunted and illegally persecuted, a group a Jews in Nazi
Germany became informers for the Nazi government against other Jews in
exchange for preferential treatment. Do we want to become the same kinds
of people as that?