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Date: 2011-07-13 12:13 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2011-07-13 12:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] yendi
Andrew Vachss noted the pointlessness of this nearly twenty years ago.

"As public outrage builds, politicians remain calm—they know (from long experience) that the public is easily appeased by naming still another hollow law after still another dead child."

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Date: 2011-07-13 03:10 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2011-07-14 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bikergeek.livejournal.com
I wish it were more widely recognized that naming a law after a dead child is a thought-ending cliché.

naming laws or numbering laws

Date: 2011-07-14 02:08 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
examples "defense of marriage", "patriot act" on one hand-
Title IX (equal access to sports), 766 (guaranteeing handicapped kids get an education)=>generalization, if there is a virtue in the name, it ain't in the law

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