Michelle Malkin lands in doo-doo

Interesting, over at Malkin's blog, she was receiving many threats after she published the contact info of Students listed in a Press Release from the Students Against War (SAW) coalition. These students, undergraduates, are from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Apparently SAW was emphasizing the expulsion (or retreat in proper military terms) of Military Recruiters from the campus. As per a federal court case, or something like that, if a University/College gets federal dollars as part of their endowment and does not allow military recruiters on campus they loose their federal funding. However here, it is my understanding that they were "run off" campus by protesting students. I mean if I had a couple hundred people yelling at me, as is seen in this video [ok can't find the video anymore but it's out there], I would leave too. I don't know what the overall outcome is but I personally hope they lost whatever little funding I'm sure the university got.

Now over to Malkin's doo-doo, when she "simply" extracted and listed the student's contact info, from a document described "For Immediate Release," those SAW students began receiving threats. After they requested that Malkin take down their contact info, Malkin posted them again. Ethically (something I dabble little in) it was wrong for Malkin to post the contact info again, AFTER the students reported to her that they were receiving threats from her posting the emails. She should have respected the students no matter how crapped up their actions were.

But in any case, after Malkin proved in-cooperative, SAW mobilized student of their own to send similar threats to Malkin, and somehow her family. Being the good old Malkin she is, and as she states in her Contact page disclaimer, Malkin reposted the emails she received - with the contact info of the senders.

Well this is almost a month in old news, but I found the war - and tug, a bit interesting...and for a Friday I thought I would write down my thoughts about it. (Don't worry I did cool people stuff today too, like to go the beach, get starbucks, oh and go to class).

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