{"id":2473,"date":"2008-01-06T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2008-01-06T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T15:52:25","slug":"to-concerned-citizen-who-may-or-may-not-be-a-sock-puppet-for-loudoun-county-tax-assessor-todd-kaufman-the-bill-of-rights-exists-to-protect-citizens-from-government-not-the-other-way-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2473\/to-concerned-citizen-who-may-or-may-not-be-a-sock-puppet-for-loudoun-county-tax-assessor-todd-kaufman-the-bill-of-rights-exists-to-protect-citizens-from-government-not-the-other-way-around\/","title":{"rendered":"To “concerned citizen,” who may or may not be a sock-puppet for Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman: The Bill of Rights exists to protect citizens from government, not the other way around"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an extended response to “concerned citizen,” who commented at length on my Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman has a friend<\/a> post. The nom de poltroon<\/i> “concerned citizen” may or may not be a sock puppet for Todd Kaufman himself, but it sure reads that way to me.<\/p>\n

Does not Mr. Kaufman have the First Amendment right to complain to the Realtor board? And does not the Realtor board have the duty to investigate whether there are false facts published?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t be absurd. You’re attempting to reframe the debate to portray Kaufman as the victim. What we have is a case of abuse of office, a government functionary attempting to abrogate the free speech rights of an innocent citizen. The Bill of Rights exists to protect citizens from government<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The price for Mr. Kaufman exercising his rights, even if misguided, should not be ridicule<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To the contrary, this is the exact and perfect price, firmly established in the history of satire in America.<\/p>\n

and exposure of personal information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Straw Man Fallacy. Did not happen, at least not in anything posted on the RE.net.<\/p>\n

It comes across not so much as openness as exposure for further personal attack by others by way of letters to his home, phone calls and the like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Straw Man Fallacy again. We have done nothing of the sort. This may in fact be the Well-Poisoning Fallacy.<\/p>\n

It also distracts from the issue, which is, I think, whether any false information was published to consumers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The issue is Mr. Kaufman’s ham-handed attempt at censorship. Period. He made a bone-headed mistake, and he is paying the exact and perfect price for doing so. If you are his friend, you could help him find his way back to the light.<\/p>\n

Arguments pro and con in this matter should be couched in terms of truth or falsity of the blogger’s work,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

False. The right to free speech includes the right to be wrong. Your instant quibble will be to resort to libel or slander, but those are civil torts, to be adjudicated in a court of law. Absent proof of damage or malice, people in the United States are free to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an extended response to “concerned citizen,” who commented at length on my Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman has a friend post. The nom de poltroon “concerned citizen” may or may not be a sock puppet for Todd Kaufman himself, but it sure reads that way to me. 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