{"id":146879,"date":"2023-09-05T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146879"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:10:27","slug":"legally-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146879","title":{"rendered":"Legally disgusting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guess this one is more of an opinion piece than anything resembling (occasionally snarky) commentary.<\/p>\n

I read this morning that a pensioner in England spent hours with the cops for a hate crime… for taking a photo of a sticker. Per the article, someone plastered a “Keep males out of women-0nly spaces” over an LGBTQ “Stand By Your Trans”poster.<\/p>\n

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Last night, the woman said she had stopped to take a photo with her phone because she agreed with its message that transgender<\/a><\/span> women \u2013 who were born male \u2013 should not be allowed into women-only spaces such as changing rooms. She did not share the image on social media and only took the photo to show to her partner when she got home.<\/p>\n

But several days later, while she was caring for her seriously ill female partner, two uniformed officers from West Yorkshire Police came calling.<\/p>\n

‘They gave me a long lecture about the sensitivity of the issue, and how something like this could cause harassment and alarm to the community,’ she said. ‘They were investigating it as a hate crime, which is outrageous. I was in a state of shock.’<\/p>\n

West Yorkshire has the second-highest crime rate in the UK, but more than 90 per cent of cases go unsolved in the area, according to official figures. The same force provoked outrage last month when officers arrested a 16-year-old autistic girl in Leeds for suggesting that a short-haired police officer resembled her ‘lesbian nana’. Viral footage showed seven officers manhandling the girl, who cried out in distress as they took her into custody for a suspected ‘homophobic public-order offence’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite not having put up the sticker, and not having shared the image on-line, she was perceived as having committed wrong-think. See this coming here?<\/p>\n

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And on this side of the pond…\u00a0 In LLano, TX is trying to pass an ordinance against people TRANSITING the county headed somewhere to get an abortion.<\/p>\n

While the procedure was now illegal across Texas, people were still driving women on Llano roads to reach abortion clinics in other states, the residents had been told. They said their city had a responsibility to \u201cfight the murders.\u201d<\/p>\n

…ordinances like the one proposed in Llano… make it illegal to transport anyone to get an abortion on roads within the city or county limits. The laws allow any private citizen to sue a person or organization they suspect of violating the ordinance. Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The primary targets are I-20 and Rte 84 into New Mexico, where abortion is still legal. So they are\u00a0 regulating intent to commit a legal act<\/em> because they don’t agree with it.\u00a0 Those travelers aren’t committing abortion in Llano.\u00a0 Sounds a lot like Alabama’s AG saying he thinks helping a woman go out of state to get an abortion is “criminal conspiracy”.\u00a0\u00a0 Reason<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, I am not a particular fan of abortion, but I see this as a HUGE overreach. Not to mention a bit of a jurisdictional issue – if where someone is going the act is legal, ‘conspiracy’ or abetting is a moot point, isn’t it? No matter what: this concept of restricting travel is anathema.\u00a0 I don’t think we need to go in much detail on the kind of places that have them, or how alien that idea should be to anyone with even a superficial knowledge of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

What’s next – “Ausweis bitte!”?<\/p>\n

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