Thursday, June 24, 2004

Jack Ryan addendum

Juan Cole reminds us that Jack Ryan's worse behavior has been his despicable tactics in the current run for his Senate seat challenged by Barack Obama.

Another irony is that Ryan pulled the stunt early in the campaign of having a cameraman follow Obama around everywhere, documenting all his moves. Obama could not even speak to his wife on his cellphone in privacy. Ryan tried to create what French philosopher Michel Foucault called a "panopticon," as a way of intimidating his opponent. This move was despicable, an invasion of privacy, and a form of stalking, and should be illegal. (I think it would be in California, which has proper privacy laws). Now Jack Ryan is going to be the one followed around by cameras, into whose private life strangers are going to poke relentlessly. In that sense, the whole thing serves him right.
  Cole post

More GOP righteous values.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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