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Re: Net Politics



> 
> At 10:23 AM 8/27/96, Jonah Seiger wrote:

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> 
> I swer I had this conversation somewhere recently, and those of us involved
> in it came up with one reason this rift seems to come up so often and get
> discussed so publically, especially in comparison to our "organized,
> determined" opponents. I would hazard a guess that those people working
> within the cause of electronic freedoms tend not to be the simple
> order-following, authority-heeding sort (compared to, say, followers of the
> Religious Right). It's easy if you're Ralph Reed to send out a flyer or get
> the telemarketters working and tell the troops what to do. It's not as easy
> if you're, say, Jonah Seiger. Not because of Jonah (or Shabbir, or Declan,
> or whoever), but because of his audience. It's not a push-button response
> with us.

The herding cats analogy comes to mind here.

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