freedomforum.org: Federal judge quashes subpoena for Kansas bookstore's sales records

[Declan McCullagh]

Jim, please do not email me privately unless you want to say something to 
me privately. It appears as though you sent the below message to the list 
and then to me in a different message; there is no need for this, and it 
violates netiquette.

In any case, I'm inclined to believe that the First Amendment should not 
grant special rights to people who call themselves bookstores and 
journalists. Rather, we should all enjoy those rights. Being an Official 
Approved Government-Certified Journalist -- and I am one -- writing an 
article should not mean I have special privileges that only I enjoy and 
someone from an unapproved newspaper, or a cypherpunk subscriber writing 
about the same topic, does not.

-Declan


At 05:29 PM 2/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > I'd want to read the documents in this case. But quick thoughts: The
> > scope of civil discovery has broadened too much in the U.S.  That
> > said, I'm not sure why bookstores should be treated differently than
> > other businesses.
>
>Congress shall make no law respecting freedom of speech or press.
>
>I'll give you a mental problem to ponder, if you can infringe my speech or
>press by intimidating or denying access to others then there is no free
>speech or press and the right has been infringed.
>
>"He's guilty, he read "Hunt for Red October"!"
>
>It doesn't surprise me that most of the crypto-anarchist cranks (you
>people should really look up the definition of that word before you use
>it) on this list wouldn't get it.