Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: To JJ, re secular humanism in the schools Message-ID: <4233@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 11:15:44 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4233 Posted: Thu Aug 29 11:15:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 05:08:21 EDT Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 43 Well, I don't disagree a lot with most of what Mr. Samuelson says. I accept that he overlooked the situations where people were being harassed. For unbiased info on the various lawsuits: Good luck. I've seen a variety of info after posting the 'creationists by name' song, but not a bit of it is unbiased, and it doesn't have much backing, since I can't fly to other states just to find out. None-the-less, such harrassment has been documented in a couple of states recently. I don't have the info handy, but the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee might. I'm waiting for their info now. I do agree that the inability to recover for a specious lawsuit isn't a result of the "Hatch Act", but I don't hold this particular law blameless, since it is well known that one cannot recover for a specious lawsuit. As to the threat of a lawsuit causing serious damage: Most (if not all) mortgages say that the lender can foreclose if the mortgage holder is made a party to any legal action. The first summons you get makes you a party. A number of credit agencies watch the legal notices, as do various service organizations that work for banks. (How they filter all that info is a good question, for sure!) Sueing for harrasment (aka Juristy, Barristry) is very difficult, and, in most states, seems to require evidence tatamout to admission by the other party that the suit was indended to harrass. I think most of the rest of our dispute can be attributed to belief. I do not intend to ask you to change yours, and you haven't asked me to change mine, so let's not argue any more about it. -- SUPPORT SECULAR TEDDY-BEAR-ISM. "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj