Comments on: Kentucky Fried First Amendment Rights

By: marcorandazza

marcorandazza — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:00:09 +0000

You make a good point about the requirement that you leave a name and email. Of course, I don’t check to see if they are valid. I would only use that information to try and contact you for friendly purposes or to confirm a statement that someone else asked me to take down or verify.

In other words … I wish for my site to have a certain level of civility, albeit I do not set the bar very high by the example I set.

But… I submit to that standard voluntarily — as does anyone who posts. Couch, well, I agree with your take on him.

And don’t worry.. if Couch sends me a subpoena, I’ll fight it.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:11:23 +0000

Bravo, Prof. Marc. (But how ironic that I’m required to leave my name and e-mail to post on your site … OK, I don’t really care, just couldn’t resist …)

Isn’t it always galling how woefully ignorant of the law and the constitution many of these used-car salesmen-cum-politicians actually are? Just because East Kentucky sent this schmoe to the state house doesn’t mean he knows a lick about how government does (or, perhaps, should) function.

Oops, did I just defame Rep. Couch? Please do your best to “lose” my personal information …

By: marcorandazza

marcorandazza — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:44 +0000

That is good news. Thank you for the additional research.

Of course, it doesn’t remove his award. Perhaps he wont push it, but introducing unconstitutional legislation to simply “draw attention” to a problem is nothing worthy of respect.

By: Jon Garfunkel

Jon Garfunkel — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:18:16 +0000

The Courier-Journal dug a little deeper than WTVQ: “Couch, however, said he won’t push the bill — he just wants to draw attention to the growing presence of anonymous and often mean-spirited comments on Web sites.”