brady bunch in moderation
It looks like the official blog for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is now requiring that you register before leaving comments. Frankly, with the way they always get hammered on when they post their garbage, I have to wonder what took them so long.
So if you want to post, you need to register. I’d use a “dump” address, but if you don’t keep one of those around try one of the free, no sign-up ones over at Mailinator. You also no longer get the standard rel=”no follow” linkback to your blog next to your comments.
Does a trackback work? It seems to, but I’m going to try an experiment now.
When one rubs two neurons together, however, one comes to the realization that the No-Fly list is a list of people where the government 1) has enough evidence to declare them as too dangerous to allow on a plane, and 2) the government does not have enough evidence to detain them in a prison such as Gitmo. So how much evidence does it take to be detained in a secret prison, that is sometimes in a secret location, where one would be (secretly, of course) be denied the right to appeal ones imprisonment to a secret court? I’m sorry, that’s a secret, but news reports have hinted that some of the detained people are j. random people turned in by other people for the reward money.
All of that is a round-about way of saying we can’t trust the no-fly list. I’m sure the Robert Johnsons, Ted Kennedys, James Moores, Walther Murphys, and a few people named John Lewis would agree with that assessment. All the innocent people who are on the list would agree that it’s a secret how they got on the list, and there is no way to formally get off the list. Thus the list violates the “Due Process” sniff test.
Due Process – that’s another right we pro-freedom people care deeply about.
Yuri Orlov Says :
The Brady bunchers always get hammered from the pro-freedom side. It’s a 99% - 1% thing normally, with only a hysterical young woman (Kelli) and perhaps one or two men posting in support of the Brady’s.
Weird, I’d have thought they’d have more support from their own side, on their own blog.
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