Like a huge old barge plowing through the Sea, Trump's wallowing
creates a destructive wake that will continue rolling in long after
Trump is gone back to his private work of cheating his employees. The
election of Joe Biden should not be viewed as a victory. It is what
we might call a breather. Four years in which we can build a Peoples
Support Organization, or face a new wave of erosion, and probably an
end to any hope of democracy.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/8/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
‘First Amendment freedoms threatened by disclosures’
https://themilitant.com/2020/11/07/first-amendment-freedoms-threatened-by-disclosures/
BY MICHAEL KRINSKY
Vol. 84/No. 45
November 16, 2020
The threatened disclosure of the names and addresses of Socialist
Workers Party Presidential electors ignores a fundamental constitutional
principle: as the Supreme Court stated in its great decision of the
1950s protecting civil rights organizations in the South, “inviolability
of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be
indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly
where a group espouses dissident beliefs.”
That surely is the case here. In my law firm’s many decades of
representing the SWP, we have seen and proven in court and before
administrative bodies (such as the Federal Election Commission) a long
pattern of governmental harassment and also, importantly, hostility by
private individuals and groups that has gone well beyond debate and
disagreement to encompass economic reprisal, loss of employment, and
physical threat.
Far from being a thing of the past, SWP members have received death
threats during this current Presidential campaign in the State of
Washington.
The threat to First Amendment freedoms from the threatened disclosures
is real, both to persons wishing to associate with the SWP and, by the
precedent it would set, to the many others wishing to associate with
causes and organizations that may be the target of governmental or
private hostility.
There is no overriding, countervailing public need for disclosure that
could possibly justify disregard of the fundamental constitutional
principle at stake in these circumstances.
Michael Krinsky,
Partner, Rabinowitz Boudin Standard Krinsky & Lieberman
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Malcolm Jarrett. As we go to press, the results of the presidential
election are not settled.…
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Sam Harris
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is
likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our
powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the
one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter
our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which
we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes
is true from what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn't
perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of
scientific objectivity. But that is just the point-these have been failures
of science, discovered and corrected by-what, religion? No, by good
science.”
― Sam Harris
