Justice, At Last!!

 

1. This is an excellent illustration of how laws against something as vague as “ethnic intimidation” can be pressed into service as tools of oppression, specifically to afflict those persons who are currently politically disfavored.

   Good laws have very hard edges—and it’s impossible to write hard-edged law about the public expression of opinions.

   Posted by Francis W. Porretto       02/18/2005  at  11:47 AM  



2. The last time I looked in the dictionary, “ethnic” had nothing to do with arbitrarily selected behavior...or any other kind of behavior, for that matter.  And vice versa. If behavior determines ethnicity, I suppose that each of us constitutes an ethnic group unto self.

   Strange.  We used to call those individuals, once upon some far distant time.....

   Posted by Tannenberg       02/18/2005  at  01:27 PM  

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