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. [...]