From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:22:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Schlafly helped defeat ERA, supported Goldwater--where do I sign up?
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At 09:48 AM 8/15/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 1:53 PM 8/15/96, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>Take a look at the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression's list of
>>enemies of free expression. Excerpt follows.
>>Linkname: Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum
>>Filename: http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/BCFE/bcfenatl.html#Schlafly
>>
>>   Phyllis Schlafly
>....
>>   "Leading the pro-family movement to victories since 1972." Basic
>>   membership includes a subscription to The Phyllis Schlafly Report and
>>   costs $15.00. Mrs. Schlafly, whose husband Fred used to head the World
>>   Anti-Communist League, is the person considered most responsible for
>>   the defeat of the ERA. Her book A Choice Not an Echo, published in
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>   1964 to support the presidential aspirations of Barry Goldwater, is
>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>   one of the seminal texts of contemporary American conservative
>>   politics.
>
>So, she helped defeat the ERA and supported Goldwater. Sounds pretty good
>to me. From this excerpt, I'd call her a friend of liberty.

I think it's interesting that one of the most effective methods the 
Democrats used to defeat Goldwater was the fear that he would get us into 
war (Girl and daisy ad, for example) and when Johnson was elected he 
promptly got us into the Vietnam war. 

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com