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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Subject: Telephone calls for national politics
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:42:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.044204.7827@reed.edu>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
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- Am I the only one who is disgusted by this latest game in politics,
- thousands of citizens telephoning various people in Washington DC and
- registering their "vote" for or against the ban on queers in the
- military?
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- I'm not saying that we shouldn't call. We don't have a choice - other
- folks are already playing the game, so we have to make our own calls.
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- But what the hell? The news media are reporting the "tallies of calls
- for or against" like they were votes or scientific polls or something.
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- Is this what's meant by interactive government?
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- nelson@reed.edu \/ There is absolutely no other possibility
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