[EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Apr 17 13:31:45 PDT 2014
I have a favor to ask those who self-identify as conservatives or
libertarians.
If you have expressed your support for the listserv (and/or my
moderation of it) in a post to the listserv or if you are willing to
write a public message about it, please let me know (by sending an email
that I can publish your remarks). I will likely include some of them in
a post on the Election Law Blog. I only want to post from those persons
who are willing to have their names included.
Thanks!
On 4/17/14, 12:49 PM, Scarberry, Mark wrote:
> 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
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> 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>:
>
> /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?
>
> Share
> <http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D60581&title=Interesting%20Perspective%20on%20Election%20Law%20Listserv%20from%20Non-Participant&description=>
> Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
> --
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Rick Hasen
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UC Irvine School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
949.824.3072 - office
949.824.0495 - fax
rhasen at law.uci.edu
http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/
http://electionlawblog.org
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