[oregontim]

Thanks GR for the thread. It's worth the focus, IMO.

This is not a first amendment issue. We citizens and voters get to — no, ought to — object when an advisor to the president of the USA advises the public against taking care of each other during the worst pandemic in modern history, much less to "rise up" against their state government. He's on the White House payroll. He should shut the eff up. And we should say so. And petition for his dismissal.

I'm curious about the actual law related to criminal negligence, but I claim no expertise beyond having seen far too many of the 456 episodes of Law and Order. If TV were real, Jack McCoy would be preparing a case as we speak. OTOH, if TV were real, Jed Bartlett or Matt Santos would be president, and none of the disastrous Trojan horse attack on the US from inside the White House would have happened.

Aside from the above, I'm squeamish about riding him out of Stanford or Hoover on a rail. If we throw out every Scott Atlas we might accidentally throw out tomorrow's Galileo in the shuffle. I would follow Goose's suggestion, from that earlier thread, that he meet the criteria of academic rigor that the Stanford/Hoover positions require. The underlying truth is that we can't surgically remove stupidity and malice from public discourse without putting somebody in charge of deciding what is stupidity and malice.

[oregontim]

Thanks GR for the thread. It's worth the focus, IMO.

This is not a first amendment issue. We citizens and voters get to — no, ought to — object when an advisor to the president of the USA advises the public against taking care of each other during the worst pandemic in modern history, much less to "rise up" against their state government. He's on the White House payroll. He should shut the eff up. And we should say so. And petition for his dismissal.

I'm curious about the actual law related to criminal negligence, but I claim no expertise beyond having seen far too many of the 456 episodes of Law and Order. If TV were real, Jack McCoy would be preparing a case as we speak. OTOH, if TV were real, Jed Bartlett or Matt Santos would be president, and none of the disastrous Trojan horse attack on the US from inside the White House would have happened.

Aside from the above, I'm squeamish about riding him out of Stanford or Hoover on a rail. If we throw out every Scott Atlas we might accidentally throw out tomorrow's Galileo in the shuffle. I would follow Goose's suggestion, from that earlier thread, that he meet the criteria of academic rigor that the Stanford/Hoover positions require. The underlying truth is that we can't surgically remove stupidity and malice from public discourse without putting somebody in charge of deciding what is stupidity and malice.