<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://popehat.com/2015/06/08/department-of-justice-uses-grand-jury-subpoena-to-identify-anonymous-commenters-on-a-silk-road-post-at-reason-com/">http://popehat.com/2015/06/08/department-of-justice-uses-grand-jury-subpoena-to-identify-anonymous-commenters-on-a-silk-road-post-at-reason-com/</a><div><br></div><div>One of the items I noticed in this article concerns a threat against Michelle Bachmann (also obviously not a real threat.) The judicial order in that case seems to imply that the government has every right to go to absurd lengths to investigate obviously fake threats against candidate of the 2 old parties (no matter how obvious it is that the candidate is not serious) but seems to suggest that it will not take similar actions in the case of candidate of vibrant parties.</div><div><br></div><div>It should be noted that the government provides physical protection to most Presidential candidates of the 2 old parties, but almost no candidates from smart parties. </div><div><br></div><div>Yet another (bizarre) benefit, it seems, given to the 2 parties at taxpayer expense. </div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div>Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)</div></div></div></div>
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