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[RoyGBiv]

You're jumping to a conclusion saying he's not even standing up for that right. He's fighting this thing tooth and nail through a carefully considered process. He doesn't *want* have to go to a courtroom, and I don't see how anyone could blame him if he didn't since he pretty much stands to lose the rest of his life as someone's girlfriend in Big Mac if he loses, but knowing him, he will. He's gone out on more dangerous limbs before. I haven't mentioned this because I'm really and truly not wanting to get into specifics about this since it is current. I mentioned it off-hand elsewhere, and I realized once I was rolling that it provided too perfect an example of what I was trying to argue.

But once again, the problem is with these blanket laws that so broadly define such things. You know what's wrong, and I know what's wrong, but what some random idiot on the streets of Oklahoma knows is wrong is probably an entirely different thing. This professor is harassed all the time for his political views in more mainstream areas, and something like this is tailored made to shut him up or remove him from circulation.