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...inhumane but also dangerous in the current social climate. Folks who support SB 1070 and “completing the danged fence” in the spirit of law and order misunderstand the situation; without addressing the other dimensions of unauthorized immigration, bringing down the hammer right now will threaten public safety...
...teachers with heavy accents from teaching certain courses. In this climate, it’s easy to cause fear among people who don’t look and sound alike with myopic action. Despite their self-stylization as defenders of law and order, politicians like McCain do nothing but threaten us with chaos...
...Gogh for airing this show.” Though he claimed it was just a warning, not a threat, by comparing the producers of South Park to the Dutch filmmaker who was killed for his film criticizing Islam’s treatment of women, Al-Amrikee did indeed threaten the lives of the producers. In addition, radical group Revolution Muslim posted the addresses of Comedy Central’s offices on its website, thus endangering the employees of the network...
...beliefs, and identities. The fact that this offense is expressly prohibited by a group’s holy text should require delicacy and courtesy on the individual level—not an exception to our principles. Just as law should not supercede certain religious traditions, as laws in France threaten to do by forcing Muslim women not to wear burkas, religious sentiments should demand sensitivity from society, not coerce obedience through violence...
...bill that recently passed both houses in Idaho - and was then signed by Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter on April 8 - extends hunter protections in two ways: by taking state-issued hunting permits, licenses and tags out of the public domain, and by making it illegal to "harass, intimidate or threaten" hunters via telephone, e-mail or website posting. (Proponents, wise to the past, added the caveat that unlawful conduct does not include constitutionally protected activity.) (See the top 10 everything...