1997-06-30 - Re: Rep. Lofgren on McCain/Kerrey (good. long.)

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:08:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Rep. Lofgren on McCain/Kerrey (good. long.)
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At 3:16 PM -0700 6/29/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 09:41 AM 6/27/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>>I also applaud what my local Congresscritterwoman says, and especially her
>>quotation of the Dan Gillmor column from the local Silicon Valley
>>newspaper. I saw this colum several days ago and was impressed, especially
>>by the quote I include below.
>
>Of course, after saying good things about the stupid
>and offensive anti-encryption bill (applaud applaud),
>she followed it up by reacting to the Supreme Court CDA decision
>by announcing son-of-CDA, a bill to require ISPs to offer censorware.
>Oh, well.

To get elected in America, you have to give the voters someone to hate.
Back 10 years ago, it was criminals, then it was wetbacks, now it is
pornographers (and tobacco companies).  Hate is just so much better as a
motivating force than good government (whatever "good" is).


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