Saturday, October 01, 2011

"The Court Security Improvement Act of 2007"

The identity of government thugs must be kept secret:
"This perfect example of typical police state legislation says that whoever knowingly makes restricted personal information available about a "covered official", or a member of his or her immediate family, supposedly "with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence" against him, her, or it will be fined, imprisoned for no more than 5 years, or both.

What it boils down to is that publishing names, addresses, phone numbers, or other information attached to (just to name a handful of examples) the federal thugs who murdered the Branch Davidians and destroyed their church, members of Randy Weaver’s family, or (had this law been in place then) the troops who assaulted the Warsaw Ghetto and the guards at the Nazi concentration camps, is now forbidden. In short, it has been made a felony to identify one’s criminal oppressors."

Source

That the law contravenes several SCOTUS interpretations of the First Amendment is set out here

7 comments:

Use the Name, Luke said...

Please don't feed the trolls, like ^ that ^ one.

Use the Name, Luke said...

Apparently Jon may need to start moderating every posting again.

Jonathan Lewin said...

I have said before that this potentially great forum is being ruined by some of the trash who have infested it.

What on earth has the present story to do with Jews (or with jews, for that matter)? The anti-Semitic stereotyping and mindless hatred of some of the comments in this part of the forum drag the entire website down. I'm not sure when I'll be visiting this site again.

Use the Name, Luke said...

What on earth has the present story to do with Jews (or with jews, for that matter)?

The source for this story was "Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership". Apparently that was all the excuse the troll needed.

Bird of Paradise said...

Dont feed the trolls dont feed the orcs

Anonymous said...

I find it annoying to see comments referring to others that have been deleted but not yet read. It also goes against the whole ethos of this site - censorship! So unless a post is totally irrelevant spam or some endless screed or rant from a clearly unhinged person, I think all comments should be allowed and evaluated on face value.

Use the Name, Luke said...

or rant from a clearly unhinged person

They were. You didn't miss anything.