Tough Call
So I read the media sites after picking up the bigger debris blown into the yard by Ida, and I see this article, ‘Muslim Mafia’ author ordered to remove documents from Web, on McClatchy.
Normally I would be foursquare behind the right to post anything on the ‘Net that you owned the rights to, or was covered by “fair use”, because I tend to be rather unbending on First Amendment issues, but this isn’t a straight freedom to post issue.
The author of Muslim Mafia is on a Crusade, in the 1095 meaning of the word, against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Among the information ordered removed was the personal contact information for the employees of CAIR and the organization’s donors. CAIR went to court because people have malkinized by the release of this information. The malkintents and 9-twelvers have been making harassing, and occasionally threatening, contact with the employees and donors.
I knew the name of the author was familiar, and Danger Room explained why Paul David Gaubatz had appeared on my screen before. I mean, how could anyone forget the guy who knew where Saddam’s WMDs really were, and blew the cover on the US military’s use of ray guns. I don’t doubt he could tell John where the alien spacecraft took the mammoths.
