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Lawsuits that essentially punish tobacco companies for selling cigarettes and gun manufacturers for selling guns violate this balance. The movement to litigation stems from frustration with an inability to expand current tobacco and gun control legislation. The current suits represent a blatant attempt to circumvent proper legislative procedure...
...Board administrators balk at using legal terms to describe their process. They say they seek to educate as well as to punish...
Unfortunately, however, the staff fails to realize that in mandating hate-crime legislation, they seek to punish not simply the illegal act of the given crime, but the ideas that motivate it, attacking the legally-protected right to free thought and expression...
...perverse reality of the American Bill of Rights is that government cannot punish us for our beliefs or our expression of them, even if those ideas are utterly contemptible...
...diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop might even be put out of business. All because the U.S. wants to punish Europe for discriminating against bananas grown by U.S. companies in Latin America...