Word: outlaw
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...SUGGEST PEOPLE ARE MORE AWARE OF BAD MANNERS THESE DAYS. ANY EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE GOING TOO FAR TO MODIFY RUDE BEHAVIOR? People are more and more using the law to outlaw behavior that is merely annoying or disgusting. Cities are legislating against cell phones and smoking. To use the law to control that kind of behavior gives us a lot less freedom. Etiquette is voluntary. Its enforcement arm is disapproval...
...Anti-smoking advocates Smoke 'em if you got 'em; just not in this state: Voters approved measures to outlaw smoking in enclosed workplaces, including restaurants, in Florida and raise Arizona's cigarette tax from 58 cents to $1.18 per pack...
...forced the Bush PR machine far from its comfort zone. Bush was still conjuring apparitions of an axis of evil as late as two weeks ago, as if all of America’s earthly enemies were merely limbs of a single monster. “Terror cells and outlaw regimes building weapons of mass destruction,” he explained in his case against Iraq, “are different faces of the same evil...
...that North Korea ranks among the armed and dangerous “outlaw regimes” led by a “murderous tyrant,” however, Bush cannot seem to draw distinctions fast enough. Where we were told two weeks ago that only our righteous military might could save us, the administration now calls for a “peaceful resolution” in North Korea. Before news of North Korea, Bush warned that “our security requires that we confront both [terror cells and outlaw regimes], and the United States military is capable of confronting...
Enter the rhetoric of apocalypse. After 11 years of relative obscurity, Saddam is suddenly everywhere. Administration officials remind us over and over that Saddam is dangerous, evil and irrational, and that in dealings with his “outlaw regime,” as Bush calls it, we can predict nothing but that he will disobey. He is a “man who would use weapons of mass destruction at the drop of a hat, a man who would be willing to team up with terrorist organizations with weapons of mass destruction to threaten America and our allies...