I don’t know that you will find contempt of public in the statute books. If not I offer up the phrase free and for nothing to the bureaucrats who look after such things. I think it should be added to our vocabulary if not to our code of laws. It names a grievous assault on the community. By making a travesty of the rules and institutions that undergird our social life, contempt of public threatens to undermine that essential if often hard-to-define societal lubricant: trust.
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"Contempt of public" strikes me as an important addition to our legal language. Considering the growing number of incidents in which police make up their own laws, and prosecutors and judges do likewise, it's worth popularizing the notion.
ReplyDeleteFiled under 'We the People'.
DeleteSo 'Contempt of We the People'.
The actual 'supreme law of the land' per the Founders...regardless of what the 'Supreme Corrupt' thinks. joe tentpeg
Effective "Contempt of public" laws don't now and never will exist. Ever hear of a law to protect sheep from the shepherd? The closest "Contempt of Public" law is the American constitution and we all see who that's working out.
ReplyDeleteUndermine? Trust was lost a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteHanging Offences used to be more of a thing.
ReplyDeletePeople said, "Hang the traitor!"
"Hang the child molestor!"
I miss that.
80+ indictments:
ReplyDeleteShows how little they care about us, too.
-lg
Contempt of Congress...don't most people hold Congress in Contempt?
ReplyDeleteContempt of Public is a regular meme feature here. For example, yesterday, it was "This coffee would work better if I could throw it at people."
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