Word: reek
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Demands to know Venables’s new crime reek of hysterical persecution and desire for revenge. The 1993 murder sent a jolt throughout Britain, and disgust at the event lead to adults crowding around the court, where they banged on the children’s van, thirsty for retribution. Similarly, the desire for information about the new crime of an ex-convict seems to be a product of natural but legally unreasonable anger. Comparably strong emotions affected the original trial, and the European Court of Human Rights later ruled that the high scrutiny and “incomprehensible...
...Some retro critiques of the CFPA as a heavy-handed crimp on free markets reek of apologetics for an industry that's disturbingly reliant on gotcha games. That said, there are at least three plausible arguments - really, a three-part argument - against Obama's decision to declare the CFPA a non-negotiable element of reform...