FC: Chuck0's newest Internet enemy: The American Family Association

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 22:44:20 PST

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    Chuck0 is a colorful member of the Politech list and the Washington, DC 
    anarchist community. He's had his run-ins with critics (and the cops) before:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=chuck0
    
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    From: dburtat_private
    Subject: Chuck's at it again
    Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:13:17 -0800
    To: <declanat_private>
    
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25958
    
    Anarchist website
    targets Christians
    One pro-family group says network 'sowing fear and hatred'
    
    [...]
    
    A pro-family group is taking legal advice over its inclusion on a list of 
    "Christian Hate Groups" by an anarchists' network it says is inciting 
    violence against conservative campaigners.  [...]
    
    AFA Vice President Tim Wildmon said that the organization's lawyers would 
    take "a serious look" at the anarchists' website. The comments on the page 
    were "a veiled threat of violence towards pro-family or Christian groups," 
    he said. But "they are the ones who are sowing fear and hatred - you don't 
    see anything of that nature at our website." [...]
    
    "Chuck0" Munson, the webmaster for infoshop.org, defended his comparison of 
    the AFA to the Taliban.
    
    "Most people would say they are like the Taliban," he said. "I certainly 
    think that among all the groups they are certainly the closest in politics 
    and practice," he told Charisma News Service.
    
    [...]
    
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