Today the Constitutional Council decided that the municipal decrees prohibiting the 'burkina' on public beaches in France because of the danger to 'public order' is invalid - because these costumes present no danger to public order.
The mayor of the particular municipality that had its anti-burkina decree quashed insisted that he will continue the ban against the burkina. The mayors of several other towns with similar decrees - also shot down by the Constitutional Council's decision - said that they would continue their bans, in defiance of the French Constitution.
Banning the burkina is supported by the rightwing Republicans and its president Nicolas Sarkozy, and by the ultra-rightwing Front National. They claim that wearing the burkina on beaches in France will result in public disorder and other affronts to society.
Civil rights groups welcomed today's decision by the Constitutional Council. Meanwhile the President is pretending to be neutral, the Prime Minister is in a snit, and most Socialists were in favour of the Council's judgement. For a majority of the French the whole fake drama is a big snooze.
"Ulbricht's legal fate is ultimately no different than any 'dangerous Bronx drug dealer.'" I don't trhink so. If somebody in the Bronx got a sentence like this for drug dealing there would be a big stink.
If the New York Times is so bad why do folks even care if there's a paywall? You could be reading HuffPost instead. Otherwise, in a part of the world where there's no newsstand availability, I read my 20 'freebies' a month, usually in two or three days. Then I select everything after the question mark, hit delete and return, and read another hundred or so articles, sometimes even clicking on the ads. I can't resist those New York City stories.
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Burkinafolies -26 August 2016
Burkinafolies
Today the Constitutional Council decided that the municipal decrees prohibiting the 'burkina' on public beaches in France because of the danger to 'public order' is invalid - because these costumes present no danger to public order.
The mayor of the particular municipality that had its anti-burkina decree quashed insisted that he will continue the ban against the burkina. The mayors of several other towns with similar decrees - also shot down by the Constitutional Council's decision - said that they would continue their bans, in defiance of the French Constitution.
Banning the burkina is supported by the rightwing Republicans and its president Nicolas Sarkozy, and by the ultra-rightwing Front National. They claim that wearing the burkina on beaches in France will result in public disorder and other affronts to society.
Civil rights groups welcomed today's decision by the Constitutional Council. Meanwhile the President is pretending to be neutral, the Prime Minister is in a snit, and most Socialists were in favour of the Council's judgement. For a majority of the French the whole fake drama is a big snooze.
Ross Ulbricht Sentenced
"Ulbricht's legal fate is ultimately no different than any 'dangerous Bronx drug dealer.'" I don't trhink so. If somebody in the Bronx got a sentence like this for drug dealing there would be a big stink.
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If the New York Times is so bad why do folks even care if there's a paywall? You could be reading HuffPost instead. Otherwise, in a part of the world where there's no newsstand availability, I read my 20 'freebies' a month, usually in two or three days. Then I select everything after the question mark, hit delete and return, and read another hundred or so articles, sometimes even clicking on the ads. I can't resist those New York City stories.