[EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...

[Steve Klein]

It's ironic to complain that in a free forum participants are choosing
where to concentrate their efforts; that's the whole idea. The "government
servers" thing is little more than red meat for those who don't understand
or respect academia.

I staunchly oppose campaign finance laws. I support this listserv. Cheers.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>    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.
>
> [image: 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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>   Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
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> UC Irvine School of Law
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Steve Klein
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