Word: miscreants
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...Under a Minnesota statute, the state government shut down a scandal sheet that had printed articles lambasting official graft. The Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional. Calling the closure "the essence of censorship," Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote: "That the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraints in dealing with official misconduct...
Such punishment dates to the twelfth century, when miscreant Crusaders serving under Richard Coeur de Lion were doused with hot pitch and then feathered. It has since been associated with America's Ku Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...
Washington Monument. Then when a local lawyer named Frederic Schwartz Jr. filed suit for kite privileges, the Park Police really cracked down. They arrested four kitefliers one weekend and eleven the next, using horses and motor scooters to enforce law and order on the grass. One sergeant leading a miscreant away was heard to bark: "The charge is kiteflying." (Penalty: a $10 fine for each offense...
...they do have an impact on the real world. You have a good chance of persuading a majority to support you but all is not lost if you don't. You can always write an "On the Other Hand" editorial stating your own position, no matter how deviant (miscreant...
...they do have an impact on the real world. You have a good chance of persuading a majority to support you but all is not lost if you don't. You can always write an "On the Other Hand" editorial stating your own position, no matter how deviant (miscreant...