1) David, those asshats published their own phone numbers in connection with their event. Michelle just gave their PR a bit of a boost. They ought to thank her. If I'd plastered my number on a press release and labeled it "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE," I'd be ready to deal with my phone ringing off the hook (which is why I'd list a land line, with free incoming calls.)

2) "Right to Protest" does NOT involve such activities as blocking the entrances to the event and keeping people from attending.

3) There IS NO Constitutional "Right To Protest." There is a right to free speech, a right to PEACABLY assemble, and a right to seek redress from the government. Protests that are restrained to those activities are fine; what they did violated several laws -- including safety ones, by blocking the entrance/exit doors.

4) What about the rights of those students who might have wanted to talk with the recruiters?

J.

It might have been illegal to stage the protest the way those students did, but it is definitely illegal to lie to Congress, leak classified information, wiretap Americans without a warrant and hunt lawyers without the proper license.

Yep:

And that has exactly WHAT relevance to the topic at hand?

I'm no fan of Bill O'Reilly, but he has a truism that applies here: "you don't excuse bad behavior by citing other bad behavior." More to the point, idiot, "but Johnny did something worse!" cuts NO ice with anyone with half a brain.

Christ, is there ANYTHING you whackjobs can't turn into a Bush-bash? Just how frigging obsessed are you?

J.

The protest Martin Luther Kind ran in the South were illegal too Jay...
As for the Press Release, I send them out all the time. Usually include my cell number due to the fact that I am always mobile. But when I do, I dont expect my number to be published on a Hate Site. That shit was wrong and you know it.

Jay, I am not excusing any bad behavior. My point is you are getting awfully excited about a little protest when there are other crimes you should be more concerned with. At least it seems to me to be a worse thing when the President can repeatedly break the law without consequences -- except of course to our democracy, and the people dying, and hundreds of billions wasted. But maybe that's just me.

Yep, I didn't get "excited." I just think better of David, and it annoys me when he gives in to the standard left-wing idiocy on an issue. He's better and smarter than that.

And if you'd like to discuss other presidential crimes, how about one president who stood before a judge, raised his hand, swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth under penalty of perjury, then lied his ass off as part of a plan to obstruct justice and deny an American citizen a fair hearing? A president who was also a lawyer, and therefore an officer of the court?

But that's not relevant to the discussion at hand. No more than your accusations against Bush -- except that in both the students' example and in Bush's, there hasn't been a hearing in a court. Clinton, on the other hand, did admit to perjury and was punished for it (boo hoo, lost his license to practice law -- big frigging deal).

If you don't want certain information to get out, then DON'T PUT IT OUT ON THE INTERNET. I once -- ONCE -- posted my real name, then deleted it from the posting. (It was a piece I was especially proud of.) And twice in comments on other blogs, I gave the real name of my employer. Otherwise, I simply DON'T PUT OUT INFORMATION I DON'T WANT SPREAD AROUND. It's a real simple thing, really.

J.

1) David, those asshats published their own phone numbers in connection with their event. Michelle just gave their PR a bit of a boost. They ought to thank her. If I'd plastered my number on a press release and labeled it "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE," I'd be ready to deal with my phone ringing off the hook (which is why I'd list a land line, with free incoming calls.)

It's a matter of ethics, Jay. Newspapers receive press releases with contact info all the time, and havingg contact info on a press release is standard. What's also standard is that media organizations do not publish this contact info -- especially not for the purposes of attacking somebody.

What Malkin did was unethical and completely out of line, plain and simple. Her antics have just placed a huge blackeye on all bloggers.

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