Timothy C. May typed:
But no Congressman who co-sponsors such legislation as the "National Wiretap Initiative," with its "1% of the engineering capacity" requirements and other such Big Brother Surveillance State clauses, is a friend of ours.
No legislator at all is our friend. The legislature is a gateway - we push an issue thru it into the politico-legal system, and other groups push their own issues back through the gateway at us. Whoever pushes more, and times their pushing with when the gate is open, wins. This isn't about making chums. Leahy is a gatekeeper, like any other legislator. We don't have to like him, just get him to open the gate for us, and close it for our opponents. -- <HTML><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~mech/"> Stanton McCandlish </A><HR><A HREF="mailto:mech@eff.org"> mech@eff.org </A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/"> Electronic Frontier Foundation </A><P> Online Activist </HTML>