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"As courts claim the power to silence, censor and punish dissident speech about their own courts, it’s good to remember that the Supreme Court itself acknowledged it could do no such thing. Congress itself revised contempt law to make clear courts hold no such power and impeached a judge for exceeding it.
"Gag orders and contempt use during pending cases “produce restrictive results at the precise time when public interest in the matters discussed would naturally be at its height” and thereby “fall not only at a crucial time but upon the most important topics of discussion.” Bridges v. California, 314 U.S. 252, 270 (1941). This why courts cannot ban or punish statements even if those statements have a “reasonable tendency to obstruct justice in a pending case.”
Robert Barnes
Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His godly ones.
Psalm 116:15
Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw ...
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
