Sounds like what I remember from the 1950's. History repeats itself.
Miriam
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‘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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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
