[EL] Check out F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critic...

[JBoppjr at aol.com]

Of course not, this involved scientific critics of the FDA.  The  point is 
that government officials will go after critics however they find out  about 
them and using the methods they have available.
 
Regarding campaign contribution, in Doe v. Reed and the Prop 8 case, we  
document over 250 incidents of harassment of supporters of Prop 8, many of 
which  were only contributors who were map quested on the Internet. A campaign 
of  harassment that occurred against them is unusual.  Public officials that 
 retaliate against critics are usually very careful to make sure that no 
one  knows they are doing it.  The FDA did not send out a press release on 
their  actions against their scientific critics either.  Jim Bopp
 
 
In a message dated 7/15/2012 11:03:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:

I didn't  see any evidence in this article that anyone was being harassed 
for making  campaign contributions, and as we've discussed on this list ad 
nauseum  (and as spelled out in more detail _here_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1948313) ),  my view of the evidence from two 
recent cases involving allegations of  harassment of campaign contributors is 
that there is no systemic evidence that  harassment of campaign contributors is 
a problem.  Rare instances of  genuine threats of harassment may be dealt 
with through an "as applied"  exemption to disclosure laws.



On 7/15/12 8:06 AM, Joe La Rue wrote:


It is interesting that Van Hollen is upset about THIS disclosure. Of  
course, he was number 14 on the list. I guess disclosure is only good when  it's 
somebody else's speech that is being disclosed.

On Jul 15, 2012,  at 6:28 AM, _JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com)  
wrote:



 
_Click here: F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists  Spread to Outside Critics - 
NYTimes.com_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/fda-surveillance-of-scientists-spread-to-outside-critics.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all)  
 
Government going after critics, exactly the type of activity that can  
chill political speech and that makes disclosure a burden.  Jim  Bopp



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