"JR" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

"Bob Weinberger" wrote

By your reasoning above, if I was your employer and found out that
you
were giving money to a candidate that I do not support or worse
detest, I
should deny you any raises or even fire you.
In "at will" states I would have that option (though I'd probably have
to
give another reason). It may be legal, but is it "right"?

Hm.....so, if you find out that one of your local shopkeepers
contributes
regularly to the White Aryan Resistance, do you make a point of
patronizing
his or her establishment in order to protect all of our rights?

So let's list everyone's contributions to all organizations on the
internet. Wouldn't want to be doing business with no closet
environmentalists, or alternatively, no NRA gun nuts neither.

O.k. I contribute sporadically to the United Way, various blood banks, The
Salvation Army, Goodwill Industries, Disabled American Veterans, the
campaign checkoff thingy on my income tax forms, The Society of Saint
Vincent DePaul, various libraries, food pantries, and school fund drives. I
have, at one time or another, also contributed to the American Red Cross,
the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts of America, various churches,
winos and other indigents, numerous small children and, presumably, a host
of other individuals and causes forever lost to memory. I have never, to
the best of my recollection, made a direct contribution to any political
party (other than dues when I was a member of the Young Democrats back in
the sixties), political action committees, environmental organizations, hate
groups (by whatever euphemistic label they might wish to call themselves),
lobbying organizations, the NRA, the NAACP, the NCAA, the ASCPA, the NCLU,
AARP, the NBA, ABC, NBC, CBS, or TVA.

You?

Maybe their bank and credit card statements, their tax returns. Weed
out them serial divorcees and them improvident heathens living beyond
their means.

Let's put their library and video rental records on there, as well.
That's how you unmask your real pervert, you know.

How else to satisfy our right to find out just what these *******s all
around us might REALLY be up to?

Well, this IS fun but, before we continue, I was just wondering; do you have
ANY idead what Bob's point was.......or mine?

Anyway, modern urban life being what it is, I don't know most of what could
reasonbly be called my neighbors.....say, those living within a block or so.
However, until any of them displays through some sort of concrete example
that they harbor any ill will against me, I can think of no good reason to
suppose that it is so......and I have not yet seen such an example. If any
of them is interested enough to ask about my financial status or my tastes
in reading I might suggest that they need a hobby but I've got no reason to
withhold the information. If you like, I'll send you copies of my monthly
bank statements, income tax records, receipts for books (I prefer to buy
books rather than borrowing from the local library), and whatever else you
might find of interest.

On the other hand, we *could* perhaps restrict access to this
information to law enforcement agencies actually charged with looking
into campaign finance and tax law compliance, or into people and
organizations reasonably suspected of criminal activities (like WAR).

Well, see, there's the problem. As I stated above, none of my neighbors
have ever shown evidence of a desire to use sensitive personal information
against me or anyone else that I am aware of. The proper authorities, on
the other hand.......well, I think that if you and I were to leave our
neighbors alone, it would allow us sufficient time (if barely) to make a
full time career of cataloguing THEIR abuses.

'Course, then the rest of us would have to be content with minding
our own business.

Like answering questions directed to someone else, eh?

Wolfgang