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Showing posts with label spitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spitting. Show all posts

Thursday, March 25, 2010

re: "CLAIMS OF SPITTING ON CONGRESSMAN?"

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit ("I’m interested in everything, but my chief interest is in the intersection between advanced technologies and individual liberty.") asks an uncomfortable question:

"(I)f it had to pass by a referendum among American voters, would spitting on Congressmen even be a crime?"

Forty years ago (some) American voters were spitting on soldiers returning from Vietnam.

So I'm very loath to recommend that precedent be followed, particularly when I can see it easily spreading further.