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The connection between Tobin and McCain seems to be both speculative and remote. McCain hired Tobin's former boss (who has not been convicted of wrong-doing) and that's as far as the rabbit hole goes, right? I suppose one could adopt a guilty until proven innocent posture with regards to campaign workers, but why treat them differently than ordinary citizens? Is it just to fire someone because they are suspected of wrong-doing? Firing convicted criminals like Tobin is entirely justified, but why should McCain purge those who have not been convicted?
On a personal note, I know Jim Tobin well: he came to my family's New Year's Eve party in 2005. While I do not dispute the fact that Tobin received due process, there is a part of me that finds it hard to believe an honest man like Tobin would continue to profess his innocence to his closest friends when he was in fact guilty.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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