Courts Putting Hot-Button Words on Ice

The National Law Journal ^ | June 16, 2008 | Tresa Baldas

[Alkhin]

To me, this is the perfect set up for Islamic takeover - Islamicists excell in parsing words and eradicating the meaning. To take the sting out of words like rape and murder is to make them legal and open the way for Islam to pillage women with impunity.

Beware.

[kitkat]

1984

Excellent post. Thank you.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Like everything else in our culture, another example of dumbing down reality.

Remember:

BUMS are now HOMELESS.

DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUNKS are now SUBSTANCE ABUSERS. etc..............

[95 Bravo]

“I’d rather they stuck around for the tar and feathers.”
I have something far more drastic- and permanent- than tar & feathers in mind.
Judicial activism is strangling justice in America.

[EternalVigilance]

Judicial activism is strangling justice in America.

Indeed.

[EternalVigilance]

They have forgotten one of the most important premises that civilization is built upon:

“Words mean things.”

[polymuser]

'Judge' has such a...judgmental ring to it. We should call them something else, too.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Do you think your theory would hold up in the case of Mayors, as well? The mayor of Minneapolis removed the word rape from the police code and replaced it with involuntary deviant sexual intercourse probably with a view to treating it as a disease rather than a crime.

How do I love liberals? Let me count the ways.

[Joe 6-pack]

"The mayor of Minneapolis removed the word rape from the police code and replaced it with involuntary deviant sexual intercourse probably with a view to treating it as a disease rather than a crime."

Rapists are diseased, but it's a malady easily cured with a couple of these pills.