From: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 06:40:45 +0800
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Subject: Re: ACLU/EPIC: First Amendment Pledge Campaign
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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?

Jim Burnes