Pull the Plug

Keeping up with my new found virtue of brief writings, I just wanted to add my two-cents to the "Nuremberg Files" controversy. The anti-choice online files are maintained by none other than Neal Horsley of Carrottron, Ga. Mr. Horsley's "anti-choice web site [is] notorious for celebrating violence against [abortion] providers." The controversial site publishes "thousands of photographs and videos of abortion clinic staff, patients and escorts."

I may be a conservative Republican who stands on the side of pro-lifers, but this form of publication could and should be proscribed as a terrorist act. There is just no way I could ever justify this kind of societal discourse. In fact, this skews the decency boundary so much that federal officials should maintain a visible presence (in addition to the federally issued permanent injunction) and impose additional oversight restrictions on Mr. Horsley. This type of aberrant behaviour is why I have been calling for stricter government intervention when it comes to the internet. In addition to this method of online identification being shocking, it is costing those who are exercising their legal rights, their lives. And this is wholly unacceptable.

But according to some cause lawyers, who are determined to preserve individual free speech rights, this is permissible. Let's not stop at abortionists, however. Let's go a step a further and publish the names, pictures, home address and phone numbers of undercover DEA, FBI or our local police detective who arrested the punk down for drug distribution, online. Let's not stop there, why not publish everybody's personally identifiable information. Since free speech is so precious to everybody, then maybe folks would not object to voluntarily surrendering the most intimate details of their private lives for online publication. I didn't think so!

I think it's time the government step-up and put a stop this dangerous and unconsciousable activity! Free speech doesn't invite itself to online warrants to murder.

Thank you

BRIAN C. MARQUIS