a submission from me in response to PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

In a submission via Interesting People, Willam A. Frezza in a note titled
"PEARLS BEFORE SWINE" said:


"Lead by organizations like Mitch Kapor's Electronic Frontier Foundation
and Ralph Nader's Taxpayer Assets Project, supported by a phalanx of
tenured academics long accustomed to public subsidization, and supplied
with emotional ammunition by grass roots workers like Ms. Schneider, these
New Age Intellectual Poverty Pundits are determined to define, create, and
manage a new form of public entitlement. "


As a Board member of EFF I must take serious exception to Bill. EFF has
never as an organization even remotely taken that position or anything like
it. We as an organization pride ourselves on gathering a group of people on
the Board and staff who cover the  spectrum of opinions and political and
economic leanings. We have one thing in common and that is to support the
fundanmental rights of an american citizen as we go into the information
age and to push, shove and tempt the nation to move into this future.


Given this variety of people on the Board and Staff, you will hear
individuals maybe taking such positions as INDIVIDUALS. I have never heard
Mitch take that position nor have I heard that from the Board members whose
statements I have read.


It is certainly not the position of the EFF.






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