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Re: Free Speech
By: patrick jane Date: June 26, 2019, 10:20 pm
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Rep. Crenshaw Grills Google Executive Over LEAKED Email
Published by Veritas
5 minutes
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Re: Free Speech
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Re: Free Speech
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Re: Free Speech
By: guest17 Date: April 13, 2020, 8:47 am
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The Yellow Vest movement started from motorists being angry
about the increase in diesel price.
“Yellow Vest” protesters have defied a ban on mass gatherings
aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus...
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Re: Free Speech
By: guest17 Date: April 13, 2020, 9:01 am
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That's all we need, to have more of our rights taken away. As if
the Patriot Act wasn't bad enough.
As leaders seize powers to fight coronavirus, fear grows for
democracy
BRUSSELS —France and Bolivia have postponed elections. Peru
handed its president broad new legislative authority. Israel
sharply ramped up the reach of its surveillance state.
While leaders around the world fight the spread of the
coronavirus, they’re amassing sweeping new powers. As
legislatures limit or suspend activities in the name of social
distancing, many of the norms that define democracy — elections,
deliberation and debate, checks and balances — have been put on
indefinite hold.
The speed and breadth of the transformation is unsettling
political scientists, government watchdogs and rights groups.
Many concede that emergency declarations and streamlining
government decision-making are necessary responses to a global
health threat. But they question how readily leaders will give
up the powers they’ve accrued when the coronavirus eventually
subsides.
“This is a situation where it’s far too easy to make arguments
for undue interference with civil rights and liberties,” said
Tomas Valasek, a Slovak lawmaker.
The country that has attracted the most notice for a lurch
backward from democratic reforms is Hungary, which last month
handed Prime Minister Viktor Orban near-dictatorial powers.
Orban was already facing the prospect of sanctions from the
European Union over concerns he had packed courts with
loyalists, closed down opposition media outlets and overhauled
the country’s constitution to ensure he remains in power. The
new measure gives him authority to legislate by decree, free
from parliamentary oversight, for as long as he deems necessary
to fight the coronavirus, and it imposes steep penalties for
spreading “false information” — a step that critics fear will be
used to further crack down on the opposition.
But even countries with robust traditions of freedom and dissent
have imposed measures nearly overnight that under other
circumstances would look more familiar in an authoritarian
state. In Belgium, authorities have requisitioned cellphone
companies’ location tracking data to make sure people aren’t
straying too far from home. Police checkpoints on major streets
monitor what the phone companies miss.
“It doesn’t just take the despots and the illiberals of this
world, like Orban, to wreak damage,” said Valasek, who has been
involved in negotiating Slovakia’s pandemic response. “We need
to make sure that we don’t go a single inch further than
absolutely necessary in curtailing civil liberties in the name
of fighting for public health.”
Past moments of extreme anxiety have given rise to measures that
long outlived the crisis they were imposed to address. After the
assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981, for example,
Egyptians lived 31 more years under a state of emergency that
granted the government sweeping security powers.
The state of emergency declared in France after terrorist
attacks in November 2015 remained in place for two years — and
was ended only after many of the surveillance powers it enabled
were made permanent.
And in the United States, the 9/11 attacks led to emergency
measures that persist to this day. The detention center in
Guantánamo Bay is still open. Targeted drone killings continue.
Under the Patriot Act, mass surveillance is still possible.
“September 11th is the appropriate analogy,” said Kenneth Roth,
executive director of Human Rights Watch. “We had a fearful
public that was willing to countenance a government that was
taking steps that undermined civil rights and were difficult to
reverse over a long time.
“Governments around the world are assembling emergency powers
that they will be reluctant to relinquish, and over time
emergency powers seep into the fabric of society,” he said. “You
see this throughout history.”
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Re: Free Speech
By: patrick jane Date: April 20, 2020, 10:09 pm
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Re: Free Speech
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Re: Free Speech
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Re: Free Speech
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Re: Free Speech
By: patrick jane Date: November 26, 2020, 5:53 pm
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Supreme Court Blocks New York’s Worship Service Restrictions
It’s the first time during the pandemic the high court has sided
with churches and synagogues challenging the new rules on
religious liberty grounds.
As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court
late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on
attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as
hard hit by the virus.
The justices split 5-4 with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the
majority. It was the conservative’s first publicly discernible
vote as a justice. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief
Justice John Roberts dissented.
The move was a shift for the court. Earlier this year, when
Barrett’s liberal predecessor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was
still on the court, the justices divided 5-4 to leave in place
pandemic-related capacity restrictions affecting churches in
California and Nevada.
The court’s action Wednesday could push New York to reevaluate
its restrictions on houses of worship in areas designated virus
hot spots, though both groups who sued are no longer in zones
subject to the strictest attendance restrictions.
The justices acted on an emergency basis, temporarily barring
New York from enforcing the restrictions against the groups
while their lawsuits continue. In an unsigned opinion the court
said the restrictions “single out houses of worship for
especially harsh treatment.”
“Members of this Court are not public health experts, and we
should respect the judgment of those with special expertise and
responsibility in this area. But even in a pandemic, the
Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions
at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending
religious services, strike at the very heart of the First
Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty,” the opinion said.
Though the decision addresses the restrictions in New York in
particular, religious liberty expert John Inazu said on Twitter,
“I think the Court’s conclusion is correct and makes some
important observations, including that these orders cause
irreparable harm because they involve restrictions of First
Amendment freedoms, and that virtual worship is not a
constitutionally sufficient alternative.”
“In other words, worship is absolutely an ‘essential activity’
and to say otherwise is constitutionally incorrect and
politically unwise,” he added. Inazu, a law professor at
Washington University in St. Louis, said it was the first time
the high court had sided with houses of worship challenging
COVID-19 regulations, but also that as the pandemic has gone on,
Americans have learned more about the disproportionate risks of
different activities.
The opinion noted that in red zones, while a synagogue or church
cannot admit more than 10 people, businesses deemed “essential,”
from grocery stores to pet shops, can remain open without
capacity limits. And in orange zones, while synagogues and
churches are capped at 25 people, “even non-essential businesses
may decide for themselves how many persons to admit.”
Roberts, in dissent, wrote that there was “simply no need” for
the court’s action. “None of the houses of worship identified in
the applications is now subject to any fixed numerical
restrictions,” he said, adding that New York’s 10 and 25 person
caps “do seem unduly restrictive.”
“The Governor might reinstate the restrictions. But he also
might not. And it is a significant matter to override
determinations made by public health officials concerning what
is necessary for public safety in the midst of a deadly
pandemic,” he wrote.
Roberts and four other justices wrote separately to explain
their views. Barrett did not.
The court’s action was a victory for the Roman Catholic Church
and Orthodox Jewish synagogues that had sued to challenge state
restrictions announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on October 6.
The Diocese of Brooklyn, which covers Brooklyn and Queens,
argued houses of worship were being unfairly singled out by the
governor’s executive order. The diocese argued it had previously
operated safely by capping attendance at 25 percent of a
building’s capacity and taking other measures. Parts of Brooklyn
and Queens are now in yellow zones where attendance at houses of
worship is capped at 50 percent of a building’s capacity, but
the church is keeping attendance lower.
“We are extremely grateful that the Supreme Court has acted so
swiftly and decisively to protect one of our most fundamental
constitutional rights—the free exercise of religion,” said Randy
Mastro, an attorney for the diocese, in a statement.
Avi Schick, an attorney for Agudath Israel of America, wrote in
an email: “This is an historic victory. This landmark decision
will ensure that religious practices and religious institutions
will be protected from government edicts that do not treat
religion with the respect demanded by the Constitution.”
Two lower courts had sided with New York in allowing the
restrictions to remain in place. New York had argued that
religious gatherings were being treated less restrictively than
secular gatherings that carried the same infection risk, like
concerts and theatrical performances. An email sent early
Thursday by The Associated Press to the governor’s office
seeking comment was not immediately returned.
There are currently several areas in New York designated orange
zones but no red zones, according to a state website that tracks
areas designated as hot spots.
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