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do you genuine want the lesson? am gonna give you a chance to rethink. we can point out the first bank of the united states (1791) and mcculloch v. maryland (1819) (which you shoulda' been taught in school) which pretty much ends the purist 10th amendment argument. is not arguable, in 2020. is so freaking well established and clear the framers didn't read as does gd seeing as how they immediate started creating institutions which undercut such an argument. however, the 14th amendment is gd's big hurdle as equal protection were introduced and brown v. board o' education were the proverbial final nail in the coffin. once we combine necessary and proper clause with equal protection, is functional a legal impossibility to ignore the capacity for US fed education oversight. you now know where to look and what is relevant topics to self-educate, but we will cut you. HA! Good Fun! ps south dakota v. dole. am not sure why we forgot to mention, is essential. the fed doesn't actual mandate education standards as many believe. states is free to educate as they will. however, the fed doesn't need give money to the states if they fail to meet various benchmarks and standards.

“The supposed canons of GOP orthodoxy—limited government, free enterprise, institutional conservation, moral rectitude, fiscal restraint, global leadership—have in recent years gone from elastic to expendable.” the problem for us is that we remain a traditional conservative save for our libertarian streak insofar as personal freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. am hardly able to recognize the republican party o' 2020. HA! Good Fun!

recommendation: more people have heard of it as 'posed to seen it and context may be required as black & white gives false impression o' age o' the film. 1961. were a film 'bout the nuremberg trials, but were purposeful a criticism o' mccarthyism and red scare. used parallels to reveal hard truths. (don't watch the following if you have never seen the movie and have any serious thought 'bout doing so.) *chuckle* we recent included a bit o' latin to make a point in the politics thread: inter arma enim silent leges. occurred to us after we made the post, ds9 used the phrase as an episode title. is all star trek. HA! Good Fun!

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Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools broken record and almost pointless to highlight but, the department of education withholding funds 'cause o' individual school use o' 1619 is unambiguous unconstitutional. Congress could, if they had a legitimate purpose, create a scheme whereby states would lose fed education dollars if schools w/i the state failed to meet certain standards. Congress could. am not even able to immediate imagine the way in which such might be crafted so as to avoid a certain Court auto fail. am admitting to a morbid curiosity to see just how the wh would camouflage their attempt to get around or over multiple Constitutional hurdles such that senators would not respond. kinda like watching soldier ants bridge a small stream. is genuine fascinating the lengths to which this administration goes... to violate the Constitution. regardless, is yet another example o' obvious dog whistle silliness leading up to the election. should be insulting to Americans that trump would use such transparent efforts to sway undecided voters, but am suspecting the wh is much aware how in 2020, a little bit o' racial animus goes a long way these days. HA! Good Fun!

muslim ban. btw, Here are the prominent Republicans backing Biden politically we got far more in common with mitt romney than bernie sanders or even joe biden. and a more bipartisan list which should be compelling or at least thought provoking. STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HA! Good Fun!

trump sues everybody. he has a long history o' using lawyers to bludgeon folks into submission. notice how trump has not personal sued any o' the authors o' these tell-all books from during his Presidency? sure, he had the doj sue or his brother or the rnc sue, but not trump. a defense for the authors is truth and as such with trump as a party he would need sit and be deposed. I've Watched Trump Testify Under Oath. It Isn't Pretty. Hammered by White and her deputies, Trump ultimately had to admit 30 times that he had lied over the years about all sorts of stuff: how much of a big Manhattan real estate project he owned; the price of one of his golf club memberships; the size of the Trump Organization; his wealth; his speaking fees; how many condos he had sold; his debts, and whether he borrowed money from his family to avoid going personally bankrupt. He also lied during the deposition about his business dealings with career criminals. TRUMP: A TRUE STORY am knowing how some o' you feel 'bout the washington post, but the annotated article is providing the unvarnished deposition content. am not gonna bother reading cohen's book. what could he possible tell us which is worse than what we already know? short o' cohen revealing trump were a financial backer for michael vick's dog fighting ring, we cannot imagine anything cohen could say which would shock us. nevertheless, the guy who sues everybody has once again chosen to not sue cohen. sure, he had the doj go all underhanded to try and prevent the publication o' the book, but no chance he puts his own reputation on the line and sit for a deposition. "I've never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people," U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein said. "How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory?" how can the trump base not be afraid of trump? HA! Good Fun!

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lordy. no pizzagate reference? am almost disappointed. our mistake was failing to realize that the real threat all along were gozer the destroyer. HA! Good Fun! ps the people arrested as often as not were arrested w/o probable cause. is possible some did actual destroy property? sure. 'course the fed had no authority to arrest them when, where and how they did. as so few were actual charged we will never know how many arrested committed property damage. oh, and have you ever seen military surplus stores? any clown may outfit themselves similar to the ferds in their unmarked vans who did not tell the individuals arrested what they were being charged with when thrown into the unmarked vans. everything 'bout the situation were illegal and am knowing we shared with you the rehnquist quote, so you know it were all illegal... but you don't care. you are afraid. the chinese global hegemony which is the inevitable result o' blm protests (HA!) has you frightened enough that you don't care if what is being done is unconstitutional or even immoral. you are afraid, just as americans were afraid in 1942. same fear. same mistakes.

serious? you gotta realize how such stuff sounds, yes? the radical dems and blm protesters is causing you this level o' terror? your conspiracy theories 'bout the different treatment o' far-right protesters vs blm aside, comparing an "avowed" pedophile to blm protesters? ... ... okie dokie. btw, we would investigate the avowed pedophile, but we would not exclude from the US anybody who happened to share his faith. we also wouldn't arrest (and not charge so as to avoid civil rights protections) anybody even remote related to the pedophile if we somehow did eventual find legal sufficient evidence he/she were a pedophile. heck, we wouldn't arrest the avowed pedophile 'cause such would actual be risking eventual conviction w/o at least some evidence. bring the guy in for questioning, with his lawyer, and investigate the claims. alternative: you have bought into the fear. your fear is cartoony save for the fact it is obvious genuine. when scalia warned 'bout the possibility o' the Government engaging in korematsu-like behaviour, we took him serious, but we were expecting some future threat and we woulda' imagined a menace similar to ww2 and the fear generated by the shock o' pearl harbor. portland protests is what you has making the leap to the "chinese global hegemony"? chrysippus is wondering 'bout the steps you obvious leapt past to reach your conclusion. HA! Good Fun!

with air quality in nor cal so terrible, am forced to get our cardio indoors. ... am not sure why, but we started watching hell on wheels while doing cardio. get 5-6 episodes a week. ~45 minutes per episode is perfect length to get us a good stretch. might not be fair to say am watching the show, but is inexplicable more tedious to do 45 minutes in silence. is not a particular bad or good show but there is a couple interesting characters. *shrug* colm meaney is a hell on wheels regular and so too is the new christopher pike. am mentioning such just to make relevant to the star trek discussion and to exercise our previous stated opinion that all off topic posts is star trek relevant w/i a few degrees o' separation. kinda sad dominique mcelligott had her ned stark exeunt. she plays queen maeve in the boys, a show which also stars karl urban, who played mccoy in the new star trek films. every post is a star trek post. HA! Good Fun!

is curious how discriminating an appeal for compassion may be given the ideology o' the individual pleading for understanding. exclude any you fear? well that's not very christian. is also curious how the the discrimination (denotative) ignores what is the cautions from experts on domestic threats. @Maedhros linked what is conclusions from dhs, conclusions which has been annual carbon copy identifications o' "white supremacist extremists" as the most worthy o' the Domestic Violent Extremists label. ‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism "Since 9/11, white supremacists and other far-right extremists have been responsible for almost three times as many attacks on U.S. soil as Islamic terrorists, the government reported. From 2009 through 2018, the far right has been responsible for 73% of domestic extremist-related fatalities, according to a 2019 study by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). And the toll is growing. More people–49–were murdered by far-right extremists in the U.S. last year than in any other year since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995." those domestic violent extremists deserve our compassion and understanding. talk to them. 'course if you are a member o' blm... worse, if you are o' the same religion as isis terrorists, compassion is in short supply. those white supremacists dhs says oro should be more concerned 'bout is almost universal evangelical christian. as a matter o' fact, white supremacist religious fundamentalism is core to their beliefs and hate o' the adherents o' other religions such as papists and jews. much as islamic fundamentalists pervert the teachings o their faith so that it has for them a meaning complete different than more moderate believers o', so to do white supremacists use christianity to excuse their utter disregard for christian teachings. if the muslim faith produces existential fear in oro and others 'cause o' the actions o' the fundamentalists who has hijacked the core tenets o' the religion, then the pass christianity gets in spite o' the more immediate and likely danger from white supremacists is not rational. is in fact, bigotry. Editorial: 75 years later, looking back at The Times’ shameful response to the Japanese internment “This is war. And in wartime, the preservation of the nation becomes the first duty. Everything must be subordinated to that. Every necessary precaution must be taken to insure reasonable safety from spies and saboteurs so that our armed forces can function adequately and our industrial machinery may continue to work free from peril.” And this: “The time has come to realize that the rigors of war demand proper detention of Japanese and their immediate removal from the most acute danger spots. It is not a pleasant task. But it must be done and done now. There is no safe alternative.” And this, a year or so later, when some people were calling for the release of those who had been interned: “As a race, the Japanese have made for themselves a record for conscienceless treachery unsurpassed in history. Whatever small theoretical advantages there might be in releasing those under restraint in this country would be enormously outweighed by the risks involved.” japanese internment were popular. in fact, a gallup poll at the time had better than 50% of respondents saying that even after the conflict with japan were ended, those interned japanese should not be allowed to return to their homes. is no surprise trump and barr is using the language o' insurrection to describe blm protesters. it worked in 1942 because people were afraid. korematsu has been been the most consistent derided SCOTUS decision since dred scott. nevertheless, the trump administration attempted to use it as authority for their early attempts at a muslim ban. so make the same mistake and surrender to fear. inter arma enim silent leges in 2016 it were non-american muslims and immigrants from beyond our southern border who generated panic and fear in the trump base. this year is radical democrats and blm supporters. how much longer before we run out of people not part o' the trump base who is worthy o' oro's discriminating sense o' compassion? HA! Good Fun!

all god's children deserve a chance at redemption... unless they are part of blm, or they happen to share the same god/faith as terrorists. if they is radical democrats like biden, then they are heretics and burning at the stake is probable too good for 'em. axiom: dallas cowboy fans are beyond redemption. HA! Good Fun!

the problem is those conclusions have been consistent for years and years. last year and year before are unlikely to be any more meaningful than this year. would have been more curious if this year were sudden reaching a different conclusion. but yeah, given how this administration handles bad press, or any failure to embrace the administration narrative, it would hardly be a surprise if multiple people lost jobs. 'course administration folks also lose their jobs for spreading the same lies as the President and william barr. two spokespersons at the fda recent took the hit for the premature convalescent plasma announcement. is possible two political appointee with no medical backgrounds concocted the convalescent plasma announcement and managed to snooker the head o' the fda and the President into championing the news immediate previous to the start o' the rnc. likely? is refreshing to know there is still folks in the executive branch who is diligent doing their jobs regardless o' the possible consequences. HA! Good Fun!

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the hypocrisy is thick. tell us more how your knowledge o' history made US support o' a new kurdish state the binary alternative to the humanitarian crisis which unfolded. fascinating stuff. genuine. the causal link o' hypotheticals all coming together and being described as likely/inevitable will no doubt be entertaining. am nevertheless moved to compassion for your personal plight. if is analogous to the kurds then is truly a matter which deserves international humanitarian attention. kinda fuzzy on details (no shock there) but if oro and kurds are simpatico save for the ptsd, must be horrific. you have our condolences and prayers that whatever is the vague and horrible tragedy which has befallen oro to put on par with the nightmares suffered by our former allies, then as much as we disagree with your bumbling reason and acceptance o' the unacceptable, you have our pity. Fox News reported Trump never said that dead US troops were 'suckers,' but the network's national security correspondent said ex-officials confirmed he did https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC fox news at it again... and when will they cover the florida tragedy? HA! Good Fun! ps when we did need go to trial, we much preferred bench trials. judges demand rational and reasonable. have mentioned on these boards more than once our lack o' faith in juries. people tend to believe they got critical thinking skills and is reasonable. have seen little evidence (not just talking juries) that such qualities is widespread.

something somebody heard on alt-right radio? such were never a serious concern. hardly binary: abandon to mass murder or a kurdish state made possible by constant US involvement. rl is rare binary, save for the upcoming election which will be either biden or trump. is gonna be a choice even for those who do not choose. from a cold/heartless practical perspective, we did lose a valuable intelligence gathering asset which could warn us o' those threats o' which trump voters have an existential fear. 'stead we got one less intelligence resource at the expense o' a humanitarian crisis as well as a cautionary tale for any considering future alliances with the US-- we are faithless, mercurial and mercenary when it comes to alliances. tough sell. am not knowing oro situation, but the media must be worse than we imagined if florida is suffering the same fate as the kurds. you need get the word out that not only are the governor and President killing you by the thousands with their incompetent response to covid-19, but that armed forces are chasing you from your homes and murdering you in the streets. terrible that no media, regardless o' skew, is covering the true scope o' the tragedy in florida. lets us all pause for a moment o' silence in memoriam o' the heretofore unknown florida tragedy. much like the bowling green massacre, we shall never forget. HA! Good Fun!

already linked the troop deployment articles. we got virtual same presence overseas as 2016 but we did get to add one o' those shameful American acts to the list by abandoning the kurds (again) and getting untold numbers o' our former allies murdered. Go Team America! HA! Good Fun!

true but misleading. very few americans is employed by contract. the vast majority is at will employees. if your employment is o' the K variety, there is a high probability the terms o' the contract will discuss, in mind numbing detail, what becomes o' the employee-employer relationship if the employee may no longer perform. you are a musician who has a contract to play "piano man" by billy joel on demand for a wealthy eccentric. length o' employment is five years. you injure your hand, (severe carpal tunnel syndrome from too much internet messaging,) and are no longer able to perform according to terms o' the K. K may says that if injury is anything other than an act o' God, the K is terminated. maybe K says that even if the musciscian is at fault for injury, he remains employed for term o' the K, but at 1/3 pay. maybe... collective bargaining creates uniformity. instead o' each player negotiating what is the terms o' their employment K, is done as a group, and as a group, the players agreed to stuff like drug testing and termination for inability to perform. am gonna suggest the actual villains is the veteran players who sell out their younger and less influential members so they may enjoy larger individual contracts. a veteran player who already has a few million in the bank is willing to risk termination for injury if it means they may personal negotiate a larger individual K. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* never link us something which original came from breitbart and expect we won't deride or criticize. the legislation don't lower penalties for convictions. what the law does is it provides more judicial discretion... although the list o' exceptions where a judge may not decide is so voluminous as to severe undercut the perceived goal o' the legislation. pre legislation: nineteen year old and a seventeen year old engage in a consensual sexual act. might not even reach statutory rape level as were no penetration. nevertheless, if found guilty, the nineteen year old is having to register, for at least a decade, as a sex offender. post legislation: above facts same and judge has discretion to, for first time offenders who aren't mental patients (and a few dozen other qualifiers), waive or reduce the period o' reporting. HA! Good Fun!

of course it were sarcastic. ... the fact you don't understand the issue is disappointing. is a problem with not understanding history or is it your fear o' the middle east terrorist which makes you incapable o' recognizing naked and unapologetic bigotry? every US school kid, whether they like it or not, gets taught the pilgrims and plymouth rock story/myth-- kids is educated to know how the many who came to the new american wilderness were fleeing religious persecution. is why we have a first Amendment. the belief the US is different and should always remain a place o' refuge for those who seek religious freedom, if not acceptance, is why the Founders made certain religion were prominent mentioned in The Bill of Rights. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" is the poem immortalized on the statue o' liberty. written in 1883 (?) by emma lazarus, a poet and activist inspired in no small part by the flood of jewish refugees fleeing persecution in russia and elsewhere in europe. quakers and other christians in the 1700s. jews in the 1800s. and when the US failed to live up to the ideals espoused in the first amendment we did indeed fail miserable (e.g. 1920 nativism) in the 2000s? another century and more refugees fleeing religious persecution. as often as not it were christians and moderate muslims fleeing persecution from fundamentalist islamic regimes, refugees daring beyond hope that the US would be different. the poem is aspirational. is s'posed what America stands for and if there were some kinda real American exceptionalism, it would be 'cause o' fact so many for so long believed those words in bronze and the sentiment behind the first amendment to the Constitution. and of course the muslim ban promise as an undeniable condemnation o' trump is ignored by trump supporters (and bruce?) trump supporters voted for trump. even if they didn't support the muslim ban, trump voters knew he had promised a muslim ban. bruce keeps trying to ignore how voters chose to elect trump knowing he were advocating a muslim ban and the naked bigotry it represented. so go ahead and tell us 'bout trump voters or that the muslim ban executive orders do not mention muslims. go ahead and explain to us how such overt bigotry is not as bad as it seems 'cause rust belters bought into fear which made it ok to not only exclude suspected terrorists, but anybody who happened to share the same faith as those terrorists you fear. shameful. were shameful o' trump voters, which is why the moderate trump voters never defend the muslim ban. they ignore. they marginalize. they convince self that the fear were legitimate. 'stead we get oro and skarp_one defending. and bruce? do a search on US internment of the Japanese during ww2. is one o' those examples o' shameful American behaviours and is representative o' how easy it is for us to abandon our lofty ideals when fear is the motivation. Scalia: Korematsu was wrong, but 'you are kidding yourself' if you think it won't happen again “Well, of course, Korematsu was wrong,” Scalia said. “And I think we have repudiated it in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again.” At the time, Scalia said, there was “panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot. That’s what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It’s no justification but it is the reality.” took one freaking year for scalia's warning to become more than conjecture. oh, and trump's support o' the military is more bs. trump knows the military is popular with his base. mcmaster kelley mattis In Union There Is Strength I have watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words "Equal Justice Under Law" are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation. When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside. We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate." At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict— between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them. James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that "America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law. Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that "The Nazi slogan for destroying us...was 'Divide and Conquer.' Our American answer is 'In Union there is Strength.'" We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics. Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children. We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln's "better angels," and listen to them, as we work to unite. Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad. James Mattis both mattis and trump swore to defend the Constitution. corporal bone spurs is a fraud. oh, and muslim ban. HA! Good Fun!

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can't be certain that were a serious response. point out there is even worse stuff, (heck is worse stuff trump has done in the last couple years) is a rebuttal? every terrible thing trump has done as President, individually, is not gonna be in even top 10 most shameful American acts, though thank goodness the muslim ban was a promise by an idiot candidate to his ignorant base and so is perhaps not complete fair to blame America. the watered down version actual implemented is still kinda despicable, but nope, not top 10. genocide? enslaving multitudes? using minority soldiers as guinea pigs? etc. there is indeed much worse. *chuckle* but yeah, recognizing both the utter meaninglessness o' the admission and the embarrassment skarp_one should feel for seizing on the inane, the muslim ban were not the mostest shameful American act. congrats? HA! Good Fun!

Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased. Prosecutors say that’s not what happened. Trump ‘Swears on Whatever’ He Never Called Slain Soldiers ‘Losers’ “Also, I never called John a loser and swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES,” wanted a pat on the back for approving the funeral o' mccain. Trump says ‘Portland has been burning for decades,’ excuses supporters who fired paintballs at counterprotesters Trump told reporters Monday that Portland had “been under siege for years,” but said that he could “solve that problem in approximately one hour,” if Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler would let him. In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Trump expressed similar sentiments. “Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it’s been burning,” he said. Trump begins his hour-long interview Laura Ingraham by saying "Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it's been burning," which is a lie pic.twitter.com/wbzMqy6Uyj — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 1, 2020 He also, without evidence, pushed conspiracy theories about protesters in Portland being paid by outside agitators to protest. ... we are so beyond spin with this administration. spin is what politicians do when they attempt to not get caught in an objective lie. trump doesn't care about getting caught 'cause the muslim ban brigade don't care if trump lies. HA! Good Fun!

an observation which will no doubt muddy the waters: you got more Constitutionally protected speech rights on a public university campus than at a private institution precise 'cause the public uni is a government actor. "congress shall make no law..." however, such an observation is not the same as claiming you got more freedom o' speech at a public university campus than at any particular private institution. when we says what is the law we ain't making claims as to what is right. there is often a significant difference 'tween what is legal and what is right. what government may do to limit your speech is not same as a claim 'bout what a government should or should not do. what the government does is often different than the should conclusion. we can see there is much confusion 'bout what is the law and am sympathizing. to many, every Court ruling appears to be conflicting with some other Court ruling and when judges and Justices open disagree as to what is the clear meaning o' the law, it suggests law is more a matter o' perspective than the product o' impersonal and rational reflection. am also not claiming certainty that the europeans is doing wrong. is good arguments for increased regulation o any number o' activities even if we personal disagree with most o' those positions. don't need know law to make compelling arguments 'bout should. 'course once we get to folks suggesting what the US or the Courts or Congress need do to fix problems, then knowing what is law is kinda essential. act as if solutions is obvious when the Constitution forbids is counter-productive. apologies. we would clarify, but am suspecting it would only have a chilling effect. HA! Good Fun!