[EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...

Fri Apr 18 06:28:15 PDT 2014

I think Steve hits it dead on, this is more an attack on academia than on political opinion.  Some (not those on this list) find the free exchange of ideas, the search for provable truth and the refusal to give primacy to partisan point of view threatening.  Whether it is on voter rights issues or climate change, there is a new wave of attacking academics, using legal procedures to make expression costly, and demonizing them in an effort to stifle speech.

As a committed lefty, I support this list serve as well.  Let all voices be heard.

Howard Leib

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Klein <stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com>
To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
Cc: law >> law-election at uci.edu <law-election at uci.edu>
Sent: Thu, Apr 17, 2014 1:28 pm
Subject: Re: [EL] Attention fellow totalitarians...

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        

 Posted on April 17,              2014 10:03 am  by  Rick Hasen        

I wonder if the many conservatives on the election law listserv        would agree with these points made by J.          Christian Adams:

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.

Hasen runs an online            meeting hall 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.

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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