Comments on: Privacy and financial roundup

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:45:37 +0000

Sorry, Hugo. I seem to have missed a word in my question. Here is what I meant to write:

While I understand your anger, Hugo, why is it that people alternate between denouncing the sinking level of political discourse and urging it ever lower?

I left out the “denouncing” for some reason. I understand the frustration. I understand the impulse to say “Ha! If they had to go through this, it wouldn’t be two seconds before they’d change their minds!” I just feel that some one needs to be the adult, some one has to remember that we all want a better world; we just disagree with the right way to get there.

I don’t want to see Google engineers worried about their families being attacked. I also don’t want to see the political activists on the other side worrying about their children. As a practical matter, people tend to get irrational when they worry about their kids. It’s also not right to do such things.

Bob

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:46:54 +0000

Bob–
Please clarify.

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:24:09 +0000

While I understand your anger, Hugo, why is it that people alternate between the sinking level of political discourse and urging it ever lower?

Bob

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:57:48 +0000

Re harassment of Google engineers (and others) at home: if the USSC is reckless enough to overturn the Massachusetts law protecting abortion patients from harassment (and worse) then home harassment will become steadily more common, restrained only by the Second Amendment.
The best way to bring the USSC to its senses might be to point out at every opportunity the questionble legitimacy of their own exclsion zone around the court building. If they invent a right ( nowhere found in the text of the First Amendment) to accost private citizens on lawful private business, then the explicit right of the people to assemble and petition the “government” (including judges) will come into play. Let the judges who wish to water the ground outside abortion clinics with the blood of patriots and tyrants experience their own daily routine for a few months of walking through excitable and hostile crowds,and they may belatedly see wisdom.