Liberals Resort To Disclosure As Bully Tactic

Investors.com ^ | November 2, 2009 | GEORGE WILL

[Kaslin]

SEATTLE — Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say Washington is actually two states:

There's what you see from atop this city's Space Needle — meaning, this liberal city — and there's everything else, extending to the Oregon, Idaho and Canadian borders.

On Tuesday, Washington residents will vote in a referendum that has national significance because of a controversy about disclosing names and addresses of those who signed petitions to trigger the referendum.

This threatens the right to privacy, which is under assault by a spreading movement — call it thuggish liberalism — that uses intimidation to suppress political participation.

The referendum is on a new state law that some say establishes same-sex marriage.

This is a matter about which people differ. What is, however, unambiguously wrong is the attempt by some supporters of the law to force disclosure of the names and addresses of the 138,000 people who signed the petition bringing about the referendum. This can have no other purpose than to make it possible to harass those signers.

[Kaslin]

[Travis McGee]

The gaystapo as a group are incredibly stupid to build up such animosity toward them.

Historically, backlashes against pushy queers have not gone well for them.

[Clint Williams]

This one could come back and bite them.

Just wait until the libs run an initiative and we get their names and addresses. Remember they're the ones who refused to arm themselves.

And when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

/ sarc

[hershey]

All part of the White House playbook. They’re fascists.

[dsc]

“The gaystapo as a group are incredibly stupid to build up such animosity toward them.”

Shh. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.