I received an e-mail in the form of a letter from Senator Blanche Lincoln. Now this was a surprise because generally I don’t get replies from her office. The letter explains her stance on net neutrality, an issue of some importance to me.

Now, I’d love to tell you what it is, but I am prohibited. You see this letter is a privileged communication which cannot be reproduced. I would give you the legal language her office uses but that’s part of the letter and I can’t reproduce it.

So, I have a letter presumably informing me of her public position (or, WOW, maybe I’m the only one she sent it to, what do you think of the odds on that?) but it is just for the so many hundreds or thousands of us who received it to consider it in private as a treasured and protected document.

Maybe I should just put a statement like that on my blog. Then if I wrote something you disagreed with you couldn’t show anybody. If you did tell somebody, I’d claim I didn’t say that and you couldn’t show them any different. I can see the advantages already. Now, you might say anybody could see it on the net, but she sent me a fowardable e-mail message. Isn’t she as vulnerable as I am?

Now, usually I have a picture on each blog entry. The clearly appropriate picture would be one of Blanche Lincoln but it might be a privileged communication and I in good conscience can’t take that risk.

James Pilant