Actually, I bungled my ACLU resignation. I faxed my letter to Ira Glasser. The
only response I got back was from Marge Heins -- a very friendly and reasonable
response, as I recall. I'd assumed that Glasser had shared the letter with her.
But nothing more happened. I continued to receive all publications, and at
renewal time I got my usual notice to renew.
Finally, it occurred to me to check my fax log from the period, which was
indeed October 1997. I saw that I had faxed the letter to the wrong fax number
-- to Marge Heins, not Glasser. Heins, of course, just assumed I was ccing her.
Thus she was the only one ever to see the letter and no action was taken. At
some point I removed the link to my resignation letter, but didn't bother to
remove the letter itself from my web site.
In May of 1998, partly as a result of discussion with a number of ACLUM members
whom I greatly respect, I renewed my ACLU membership. Last year, however, due
to a severe financial crunch, I dropped my memberships in almost everything,
ACLU included. When I recover a bit, I will decide what to rejoin.
I mirrored the NAMBLA site for a short time in October of 1997, but then NAMBLA
got a provider. This is the provider that just dropped them because of the
lawsuit.
Declan McCullagh wrote:
> I'm a little confused. There are at least two places on that page where Bob
> dates his resignation as October 1997. --Declan
>
> At 22:03 5/19/2000 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
> >Bob Chatelle, a reasonably well-known advocate for First Amendment rights,
> >and opponent of censorship, has just resigned his ACLU membership over
> >their moral cowardice in not supporting NAMBLA's right to advocate for
> >reform of consent laws, and for their pandering to the anti-NAMBLA witch
> >hunt presently underway over the Curley murder case.
> >
> >Bob's letter to the ACLU is at the following URL.
> >
> >http://www.ultranet.net/~kyp/byeaclu.html
> >
> >It is well worth reading for anyone who wants a lesson in how, in the
> >quest to defend Constitutional rights, even an organization as widely
> >regarded as the ACLU will cave before a large mob of peasants carrying
> >torches and farm implements.
> >
> >Bob also mirrored NAMBLA's web site at
> >
> >http://www.ultranet.net/~kyp/nambla
> >
> >But it is likely his Internet provider will have soiled themselves and
> >deleted the page by the time you try to read it.
> >
> >It's kind of funny that one of the dullest sites on the Web is
> >un-mirrorable because of what the Sheeple want to IMAGINE it contains.
> >
> >--
> >Eric Michael Cordian 0+
> >O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
> >"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
