[EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...

[Rick Hasen]

    Interesting Perspective on Election Law Listserv from
    Non-Participant <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60581>

Posted on April 17, 2014 10:03 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60581>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I wonder if the many conservatives on the election law listserv would 
agree with these points made by J. Christian Adams 
<http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2014/04/17/a-new-more-sinister-irs-scandal/?singlepage=true>:

    /S/o who are the speech regulators seeking to impose government
    limits on the exercise of the First Amendment?

    Like bats in the belfry, they tend to congregate online at
    University of California at Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen's
    election blog <http://electionlawblog.org/>.

    Hasen runs an online meeting hall
    <http://department-lists.uci.edu/pipermail/law-election/> for all
    the would-be speech totalitarians. They post, bluster, and kibitz
    about the latest news on their effort to erode the First Amendment
    and increase federal power. Whenever a free speech advocate seeks to
    contribute to the conversation at the blog, they are often
    deliberately given a cold shoulder and ignored, per plan. The
    ignored don't understand that leftists aren't interested in debate.
    Their pedigree requires the eradication of opposing ideas, not their
    incubation.

    But perhaps the ignored should be thankful. Being ignored is better
    than what the speech regulators have done in other places throughout
    history. Jail and truncheons are the usual tools of those who want
    to stamp out free speech. In America, the speech regulators have
    just begun to warm up to jail as a tool.

    That Hasen's online hangout is hosted on /government
    servers/ provides an interesting twist.

    Judicial Watch sent the University of California at Irvine a freedom
    of information request demanding Hasen's emails to the White House
    and other government officials including any on the topic of speech
    regulations. The University told Judicial Watch to pound sand, and
    still hasn't provided anything.

    a <http://cdn.pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/files/2014/04/a1.jpg>

    Yesterday's IRS email revelation makes you wonder what Cal-Irvine is
    hiding.

    So who are some of the other speech regulators who haven't shown up
    on IRS scandal documents yet?

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