Overheard in Fog City

Luke Thomas, Fog City Journal publisher.
Photo by Adam Aufdencamp

By Luke Thomas

November 29, 2006

Brown and Bruzzone descant all things San Francisco

Fog City Journal columnist h. Brown, affectionately known as San Francisco Court Jester, retreated from outing SFWall anonymous posters by name yesterday during an interview with Arthur Bruzzone on Bruzzone's SF/Unscripted weekly television program.

Neither Bruzzone or Brown touched upon the firery touchstone subject during the taped interview, to be aired today at 7:30 p.m. on Comcast cable channel 11, but the hot topic was discussed offline and off the record.

Arthur Bruzzone and h. Brown

Anonymous SFWall posters were sent into a panic following a forewarned possibility that Brown, a self-described satirst, may use the interview as an opportunity to publicly 'out' select posters who use their cloaked identities to dagger without accountability.

Some posters scrambled to hide postings upon hearing the warning boom across their bow, burying posts in hidden archives and deleting them outright, arguably fearing their free-speech-protected alter egos just might get some unwanted free speech in the form of Court Jester sunshine.

Our great U.S. Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

With the blessed right of free speech comes accountability, so say us all... left, middle, or right leaning. Anonymous posters who skirt responsibility and accountability are equally subject to free speech in the form of outing for the purpose of counter balancing the inequity of anonymity.

Brown said of the matter today, "SFSweetie remains a hypocrite to the very end. She used the shield of anonymity to attack her competitors in the political arena.

"I went after Sweetie because she began attacking my friends with lies, and some of them are dead. Harvery Milk cannot defend himself. Jim Meko can, but to who? John Rizzo can, but to who? This is about cheap lying backstabbing character assassination and she should feel fortunate that she has not been outed yet."

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