From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 06:46:28 +0800
To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
Subject: Re: ACLU/EPIC: First Amendment Pledge Campaign
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In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970616160646.10982A-100000@westsec.denver.ssds.com>, on
06/16/97 
   at 05:07 PM, Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com> said:



>On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:

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>> In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970616140435.25992G-100000@well.com>, on 06/16/97 
>>    at 02:04 PM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
>> 
>> >                          JOINT PRESS RELEASE:
>> >                     American Civil Liberties Union
>> >                Electronic Privacy Information Center
>> 
>> >               ACLU, EPIC Call on Congress and Clinton to
>> >                   "Take the First Amendment Pledge"
>> 
>> The sad thing is that we need them to do it a second time. They already
>> made this pledge once before, it's called the oath of office.
>> 
>> If the ingore it after the first time why should they honor it a second
>> time?
>> 

>Bravo!

>Couldn't have said it better myself.  What do they do with 
>presidents who violate their oath of office?   

>Would anyone notice?

IMHO I think that we need a trial, similar to the Nuremberg Trials after
WWII, for the politicians in DC for "High Crimes Against the Constitution
of the United States".

It could even be hyped as a "jobs" program for DC, just think of all the
gallows that would need to be built. <EG>

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