Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Hypocrisy

Wonderful - the Omaha World-Herald, a newspaper in Nebraska, editorializes that there should be federal shield laws protecting the press's anonymous sources, and at the same time publishes the secret identity of a plaintiff in an ACLU ten-commandments case, complete with his license plate, the make of his car, and his employer. I knew people who worked for the ACLU, and they regularly received death threats. I can't imagine what this guy will have to go through because of the paper's ridiculous invasion of his privacy. They should be held responsible for whatever harassment occurs. Moreover, they should have realized that freedom of speech is hampered by such revelations of concealed identities of people speaking out, and should be shamed for having the gall to argue for their own freedom whilst impinging on that of another.

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