Yes, it is wrong to post the personal addresses of Members of Congress (or in this case, mistakenly the address of a brother of a Congressman) on the internet to encourage harassment.
But how much worse it is to have thousands of ordinary citizens' home addresses posted on the internet with virtual instructions to go and harass them for donating for Prop 8? To this day these maps remain. One woman I know in her sixties reports she is afraid to walk out her front door after receiving a flood of threatening mail directed to her home. Democracy is not supposed to work like that.
We have sympathy for what they are going through, but these politicians should come forward to denounce the continued intimidation and harassment of ordinary citizens for participating in the basics of democracy--and demand those eight maps be taken down.
Brian is comparing the Prop 8 attacks to the Health Care attacks... I can see his where he's trying to go. What do you think?
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I think it's interesting that in the accompanying picture he looks like a real douche but in the picture Joe.My.God posted he looks like an overinflated frat boy. LOL
Yes it is the same hate attacks.
I don't know if I agree. I also don't think the comparison is exactly the same, simply because one is a private citizen the other an elected official who opened their lives to public scrutiny. That of course is no excuse for encouraging harassment.
That being said I don't know the specifics of the law, but if the law says the people have a right to know the donors then they have a right to know the donors.
You can't choose to be part of the democratic process, through donating goods, and not want to accept the consequences of that.
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