Quote:Oh, and the site's primary financier (and one of the four defendants) is a prominent neo-Nazi (%[link=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi/]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26 ... _neo_nazi/] ). Just in case you think they're nice guys.The man's political opinions, no matter how reprehensible they may be to the rest of us, have no bearing on the question at hand. Mentioning them only offers a http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adhomine.html#Abusive]red herring for people on both sides of the discussion to chase, IMHO to the detriment of the discussion as a whole.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012