Sunday, August 12, 2007

Knock, knock, it's the thought police

Stanislav Shmulevich is a name that everyone in this country should know, not because he is a brilliant, or heroic, or really unique or notable in anyway at all, except that he might go to prison for four years. Why you ask? For throwing a paperback book down the toilet. The problem is that the paperback book wasn't his and it happened to be a Koran.

Have a looksy for yourself.

While groups like FIRE seem overly concerned with whether or not Pace university is being unfair in their treatment and possibly anti-semitic, it would seem that the greater concern is in the ability for activist groups to leverage state's coercive power to assault anyone that holds objectionable views.

I find myself increasingly sympathetic to the tin-foil hat brigade.

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