Dartz Wrote:It's seems more like it's the local sheriff that's leading the witchhunt to me, either to score political points and secure his re-election (Do they really do that in the US?), ...Apparently so, and it's always puzzled me. How can somebody who's declared him- or herself to be partisan be seen to uphold the law fairly?
Dartz Wrote:The thin with mandated intolerance is that it requires no brain. Therefore leaves no room for legal liability in case the worst happens, because hey, that's procedure. It's the absolute extreme of CYAUnjust rules can be challenged and struck down, though.
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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