Comments on mass rights blog: Our Best Security Is The Marketplace of Ideas

I am quite concerned that the state of Ma. can eav...

2008-08-26T17:39:00.000-04:00

I am quite concerned that the state of Ma. can eavesdrop on my telephone calls and my email without my knowledge or permission. Who in the Ma. Legislature is responsible for this, and what was the Bill Number used to make this Big Brother of our formerly Bill of Rights respecting state?

please do something about those ARABS AND ARAB MU...

2008-08-24T11:34:00.000-04:00

please do something about those ARABS AND ARAB MUSLIM LEGAL IMMIGRANTS who are still being detained in some states as a result of their failure to have registered in a 2002 NSEERS PROGRAM , a program that in fact what was called INS then failed to adequately inform and outreach those poor miserable migrants .
mhijar

As a proud, card-carrying member of the ACLU, I wi...

2008-08-22T14:41:00.000-04:00

As a proud, card-carrying member of the ACLU, I wish you would refrain from using language that promotes the "market" as a neutral ground on which ideas can be contested and tested fairly. You write below:

"We think that the best security comes from being able to hold up in the marketplace of ideas."

I'd like to remind you that the chief purpose of the contest of competitive forces in a market is not to seek the truth; it is, rather, to achieve what is most profitable. This form of analysis does not, indeed cannot, acknowledge the value of "goods" like environmental sustainability, the public health, or civil liberties.

The "market," as such, is not at all concerned with the fruits of reasoned argumentation based on fact and evidence -- which is what I take to be the objective of the Mass Rights Blog.

Let's come up with a better metaphor to describe this important online venue for debate!

[Apart from the point of this comment, congratulations and keep up the great work!]