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Friday, March 11, 2011

School Tech Connect: Stalkers and Spring Break

School Tech Connect: Stalkers and Spring Break

Stalkers and Spring Break

Just a little fun in the previous post with Ben Velderman, the right-wing email stalker. Apparently he's going after Randi Weingarten now, too, and god only knows who else. The FOIA has an interesting history; it was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson, and over time it has been attacked by the far right, including Scalia, Rumsfeld, and Cheney.

It does cost money for a government agency to comply with FOIA requests, which just adds to the irony of Ben Velderman's filings. Anti-government, anti-tax people