Word: threatener
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...other hand, distorts the entity of the nation-state. The United States has no business abrogating responsibility to protect its borders. No one should call for a subordination of American sovereignty, especially on such a blatantly obvious issue of whom we call a citizen. To do so is to threaten the rational political senses embodied by this state. We do not desire a "country without borders," as a matter of practicality; those who do should act for change within the system instead of attempting to subvert it. But leaders like Sen. Simpson have a responsibility to challenge the forces...
Laws requiring the registration of sexual offenders are the logical extension of long-standing legal customs and rules and hardly threaten the right to privacy which Americans hold dear. These laws, if written properly and narrowly constructed, help to provide information which many people consider to be helpful in increasing their and their children's safety...
...narrator addresses the reader directly to explain that the book is not meant to shock but to show that he is really no different from us. "I am no better or worse," he insists. "A social construct supported by judge, jury and tattletales has put me away because I threaten them." In other words, don't judge another man's form of sexual expression, dear reader, because you never know when you'll want to rape and kill a 10-year...
...despite the logic favoring a policy of limited strategic trade, many in the Republican party remain reluctant to abandon free trade. In so doing, they threaten both the continued political viability of the party and the economic health of the nation. It is time for the Republican party to replace free trade with a more flexible trade policy that allows for constructive responses to areas where free trade does not represent the best alternative. The United States can not and should not continue to tolerate the mercantilistic policies of its trading partners that result in lower, living standards...
...really increase community security? What about those criminals with lower prospects of recidivism? An oft-voiced critique of the new law, as New York Times writer Monte Williams expressed on Saturday, Feb. 24, is that it is "drawn so broadly that it includes people who do not appear to threaten public safety...effectively painting all sex offenders with the same brush." The result of this flattening of serious distinctions between sex crimes is that sex between a fifteen year-old and her nineteen year-old boyfriend, otherwise known as statutory rape, is held under similarly close scrutiny as the violent...