On 5/5/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/5/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
It depends. One forum, or a few, absolutely not.
...
On the other hand, if the names of the children
were so damn famous
they'd become news stories of their own, and there were hundreds of
thousands of places including mainstream news you could find them,
yes, absolutely, I would.
So you'd base your decision as to whether to put yourself in contempt
of court on how many other people were in contempt of court?
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For one thing, there's no "contempt of court" here. No court has
issued a gag order, unless I've missed something, so the analogy is
not terribly applicable anyway.
As to the rest, yes, I would look at the reality of the situation. If
the traffic on the freeway is going 10 miles over the speed limit,
I'll flow with traffic, even though it's technically illegal, because
under the circumstances that's the best and safest option. On the
other hand, I would under no circumstances speed through a school
zone. It depends on the reality of the circumstances, not just
technical legality.
At this point, a court order to suppress the information would be
roughly analogous to a court order for the world to quit spinning.
Pandora's box on that has been open for a while now. And the fact
remains, -no such order exists-. You can't be in contempt of court for
defying a court order that's never been issued! If there were in fact
some type of legitimate order out there from a court, I probably would
look at this differently.
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Freedom is the right to know that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.