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New law also makes it illegal to undergo or perform gender-affirming treatment for transgender people...

An amendment introduced to the Oregon legislature Thursday would criminalize drug use on public transit. The Oregon Transit Association and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 are seeking to amend Senate Bill 1553 to create a misdemeanor charge for people who use illicit drugs while riding public transit. The charge of interfering with public transportation would apply to a person who “while in or on a public transit vehicle or public transit station, knowingly ingests, inhales, injects, or otherwise consumes a controlled substance that is not lawfully possessed by the person,” the amendment reads.

Is the Great White North starting to thaw for medical professionals chilled by the threat of punishment for what are now mainstream COVID-19 beliefs and practices? Professional conduct tribunals in two Canadian provinces threw in the towel in vaccine-related disciplinary proceedings this month, part of the broader but inconsistent withdrawal of Canada's wide-ranging COVID crackdowns involving arrests of clergy, dismissal of service members and freezing of bank accounts and fundraisers. A third province this month dropped its case against a traveler who refused to use Canada's COVID vaccination tracker, while political opposition leaders are seeking Supreme Court review of the...

Update (1125ET): Following earlier news that Russia will criminalize “disinformation” about military in crackdown on “fake information”, not that different from the wholesale “canceling” and deplatforming of any western media outlets that do not parrot the official narrative, moments ago the BBC announced that it would “temporarily suspend the work of all BBC News journalists and their support staff within the Russian Federation” while the news agency assesses the full implications of this unwelcome development. Full Statement from Tim Davie, BBC Director-General: “This legislation appears to criminalise the process of independent journalism. It leaves us no other option than to...

Click this link to take you to a page which allows you to tell the entire membership of both the New Mexico Senate Public Affairs Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee (16 senators) to oppose House Bill 77 with one mouse click.House Bill 77 has been revised since it was first introduced, and initially failed to move forward, but it has now passed in the New Mexico House and been referred to the Senate Public Affairs And Senate Judiciary Committees.According to the NRA, HB 77 "is the first step toward the criminalization of all private firearm transfers..." and "mandates that...

MONTERREY, Mexico—A surge of drug violence in Mexico's business capital and richest city has prompted an outcry from business leaders who on Wednesday took out full-page ads asking President Felipe Calderón to send in more soldiers to stem the violence. The growing violence in Monterrey, long one of Mexico's most modern and safe cities, is a sign that the country's war against drug gangs is spreading ever further from poorer battlegrounds along the border and into the country's wealthiest enclaves.

Friday July 10, 2009 India Supreme Court Accepts Challenge to Legalization of Homosexual Sex By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiNEW DELHI, July 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - India's Supreme Court has agreed to consider a petition seeking to repeal a recent lower court ruling that effectively decriminalized homosexual sex among consenting adults.Last week the Delhi High Court ruled that homosexual acts between consenting adults are not criminal and that the 150 year-old law, section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes "carnal intercourse against the order of nature," is a violation of "fundamental rights" and must be amended in accordance with...

On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Liberty Counsel wrote: From the Desk of: Mat Staver It is shocking how fast President Obama and Congress are moving. See below. --Mat While most Americans are focusing on the economy, the stealth political attacks on our faith and freedoms are increasing! Our staff at the Liberty Center for Law and Policy in our Nation's capital have alerted me to two bills in the 111th Congress that threaten to undermine the rights of people of faith. These "hate crimes" statutes elevate "sexual orientation" to a special protected status and essentially criminalize Christian beliefs...

President Bush plans to address the nation on Monday night at 8 PM to con the American public into buying into his ludicrous immigration policies. His approval ratings are at an all-time low, with only 31% of Americans approving of his job performance, while "68% believe the United States is worse off today than it was before Mr. Bush became president." Bush's immigration policies would open the floodgates to illegals, and Americans do not approve -- and it looks like the Senate agrees. Another poll shows support for the House's tough and very sensible immigration legislation, HR 4437: ...69 percent...

<p>The U.S. Senate has passed Ted Kennedy's so-called "hate crimes" bill. In the words of the Traditional Values Coalition, it will criminalize a person's thoughts and provides unequal penalties for the same crime—depending upon the motivation of the accused. That means that the media that possibly provoked or influenced commission of the crime will come in for scrutiny. Yet our liberal media have remained silent on the constitutional and First Amendment implications of this approach.</p>