NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
1d ago
With this context, I think I'm actually wrong, and some of the media were right, but perhaps on accident.
Interesting to note that this section of the law, passed in 1953, appears to be designed to attack the KKK. The section is titled "Prohibited Secret Societies and Activities": https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter/Chapter_14.html
NewCharlesInCharge
1d ago
That'll teach me not to refresh in a separate tab before hitting post!
NewCharlesInCharge
9d ago
And had the bill passed they'd be telling immigrants to claim they were waterboarded, since it is a form of torture that leave no physical evidence on the victim, for which they'd qualify to remain in country.
NewCharlesInCharge
8d ago
Or else someone sues and gets found to have no standing.
NewCharlesInCharge
11d ago
For a few years now my state has had a bill to do away with priest penitent privilege. They don’t have the votes yet, but they’re close.
NewCharlesInCharge
24d ago
Lewis in heaven, looking down at mukbang, disappointed that his imagination was so limited.
NewCharlesInCharge
10d ago
To clarify a little more than supremacy, trial courts are triers of fact: did the accused do the thing the state says they did, and is that a violation of what the law says. They do not evaluate the validity of the laws.
If your belief is that the law itself is invalid then you have to make that case at the appellate courts.
NewCharlesInCharge
11d ago
Very few Protestants do confession. Fewer still treat it as an inviolable sacrament that demands excommunication for those that violate the confessional seal.
NewCharlesInCharge
22d ago
I’ve always been taught that anti-Catholic sentiment in America went hand-in-hand with nativism. The Catholics were from strange lands with strange customs like Ireland, Italy, and Poland. It wasn’t Catholicism per se that drove anti Catholic feelings in the country, but it was a common thread among the foreigners arriving from countries that weren’t well represented at the founding.
I guess the Pope coming out against Freemasonry didn’t help relations between American elites and Catholicism, either.
NewCharlesInCharge
22d ago
There was a large wing of the abolitionist movement that aimed to repatriate freed slaves to Africa. It’s how we got Liberia in the 1820s.
They organized themselves as the American Colonization Society.
NewCharlesInCharge
9d ago
I would like to see some kind of personal liability for legislators that are clearly flouting previous rulings. You shouldn't be able to use the state to deprive citizens of their rights with complete immunity.
NewCharlesInCharge
9d ago
Huh, I don't know where I'd heard it but it looks like I'm 100% wrong. Thanks for the correction.
NewCharlesInCharge
22d ago
That fails to recognize the distinction between prohibition and punishment.
Suppose we prohibit sneezing in public and make the punishment that nearby police must immediately say to you “gezundheit!”
The punishment is unusual but not cruel, and the prohibition still not itself a punishment.
Remember the "don't say gay" bill? If you were being very charitable, you could say that the so-called "don't say gay" bill in Florida did prohibit "saying gay" in certain contexts, so I suppose the reporting on it comported with Scott's ideas on bounded distrust, that the media rarely concts outright lies.
But the reporting on North Carolina's HB 237 looks to consist of outright lies. Background: the state already has a law on the books that prohibits concealing your identity when committing a crime, with a consequence that the class of misdemeanor or felony commited gets bumped up by one. During the pandemic they added an extemption to the law for thsoe wearing a mask for health reasons. HB 237 removes that exemption.
News media are reporting that North Carolina is banning mask wearing in public. Some examples of those spreading the idea that this is a general ban on public masking:
WaPo adds some more context, and describes the law as a prohibition on masking during a crime, but still lies in their headline by saying that the bill bans mask wearing at protests generally:
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