[EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...

[Scarberry, Mark]

I couldn't disagree more with Adams. I consider myself to be mostly conservative on election law issues, if that's a meaningful category, and to be on the "less regulation more 1st Amendment-protective" side; and I think the list is a great "place" for discussion. Sometimes my posts get substantial responses; sometimes not. But Rick and UCI do a real service in providing this viewpoint-neutral limited forum (if that's the right description).

Mark

Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine University School of Law


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From: Rick Hasen
Date:04/17/2014 10:04 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: "law >> law-election at uci.edu"
Subject: [EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...

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>:

So 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.

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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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