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To: Mr. Mojo

19 posted on 11/05/2016 10:36:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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As far as I can tell, this motion is just a feel-good magic unicorn sort of thing and has no legal force. If the government makes the mistake of trying to turn this into a law, then I would expect the opposition to use that to their advantage, and if it got to be a law then it would meet with resistance all the way to an eventual Supreme Court challenge. I would think it would be too vague a concept to litigate, better to leave things alone and prosecute people for acts rather than opinions. This government has made no move (yet) to restore the widely criticized Section 13 of the Human Rights Act which gave grounds for prosecution of opinions, overturned by the previous government a few years into their first mandate. If that comes back into discussion then it would give a parallel legal track for prosecuting Islamophobia, so we remain on high alert for any appearance of that old canard.


20 posted on 11/05/2016 11:00:36 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Hillary Clinton -- motivational speaker, lives in a van down by the Potomac)
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