Day: February 4, 2014

About 4 months ago I asked for the readers to support this project albeit in a understated way. That page, “Slabbed at the crossroads”, which replaced the blog for a few hours, did stimulate substantial reader commentary, which I was happy to host. Those that have followed this project since its inception over 6 years ago know that I have a deep interest in Behavioral Economics and all of its offshoots including Public Choice Theory and Game Theory and sometimes Slabbed is my laboratory. The reader feedback in the form of that ‘substantial reader commentary’ has helped shape this place since. There is a misconception that needs clearing up however and it is there I begin:

The existence of slabbed and its followers was and is enabled by our right to the freedom of speech. This right was provided and is maintained by veterans who volunteered to answer the call of duty. I cannot personally vouch for the expense details of the slabbed donation program but I think it would be fair to donate a portion of it to battle wounded veterans.

There is no disputing the basic fact that we all have a constitutional right to free speech and that right has been justified in blood.  I have a bit of firsthand knowledge of that topic in fact but the only person that can preserve your right to free speech is you. And sometimes that takes lawyers and a resolve to stand up for the truth and fight for it in a court of law.  Not everyone has what it takes to do that and no amount of blood shed by our veterans in the past changes that fact. In my own case two large, well funded media outlets folded up rather than expose the depths of the corruption in the face of frivolous SLAPP suits by Aaron Broussard’s unindicted co conspirators. They folded despite having both the basic facts and the First Amendment on their side.

There are those that have told me in so many words that story wasn’t worth the fight while politely asking Slabbed to lend exposure to their causes.  To myself I think, “If Broussard’s bribery and money laundering schemes aren’t worth that fight your story can’t be either.” You see folks I only know how to bring it one way. It is why you’re here reading this and also why there aren’t thousands of blogs just like this one.

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