Naming a proposed law after a dead person, particularly a child, is fundamentally a demand that everyone be credulous, unquestioning, and obedient.
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Cristian Farias
It may be even simpler than that: No politician dares vote against terrible policy with untold downstream consequences for many—for the simple fact that it's named after a victim of an unspeakable/inexcusable act of violence.
God help us all if that's all it takes to create criminal legal policy.
God help us all if that's all it takes to create criminal legal policy.
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Tuesday shall be Second Monday! A tax on all foreigners living abroad! The new anthem shall be the Star Trek theme!
Oh sorry they called it the Patriot Act😉✌️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dima_Yakovlev_Law
Meanwhile when we ask for our children to be fed at school or protected from gunmen we're told to fuck right off.
Thankfully THAT bill failed to pass.
Don't ask about 1997's Cuddly Puppies Are Our Buddies! Act.
They’d make their own laws to make legal their crimes
And criminalize other behaviors to control the population
That was a problem with BLM, they had no real leaders, and no politician actually took up their cause to champion in policy
Local politicians occasionally pass minor reforms after people riot in reaction to police abuse. But those reforms rarely have real teeth.
"Reasons."
and
"National Security!!1!"
continues to dominate as the easiest way to get bad laws passed...