Recent content by Poohbah

I am merely proposing that, because of the nature of the offense, the law be changed to make it a capital crime. We DO need transparency in political donations. But we also need the strongest guarantees that that information will not be misused. We can do this dispassionately, within the dry...

I see no reason to reward someone just for being incompetent. They had the intent to risk killing someone, they can pay the big boy penalty for doing so.

No. Because there's always the prospect of amnesty, pardon, etc if the offender's side wins.

Stripping citizenship and branding as an outlaw, in the classic definition of the term : one who is outside the protection of the law, no f***s given about whatever happens to him.

Using political donation data that must be supplied to the state, under penalty of law, to commit violence or threaten same is not just an ordinary attack on an individual; it is an attack on the political process itself, and on the rights associated with that process. It is the gravest of...

Then there needs to be adverse consequences for yo-yoing laws to evade Supreme Court review. 2nd time through the appellate process: the party changing the law gets invited to show cause why they should not pay full legal fees of the other party. 3rd time through: all right, it's not moot...

My solution: anyone who uses that information to threaten or harm a donor is guilty of a capital crime and gets hanged.

The objection to mootness is that they can simply put it back in place and force the plaintiff to start all over again.

Howdy do! I'm Poohbah on HPCA. Heard about this place and decided to join.