AND NEITHER ARE WORKING! The locations with the highest levels of gun control in the US also have the highest level of violent crime(NYC, DC, Chicago), and the places in Europe with the strictest speech laws have the most trouble with their minorities (Turks in Germany, N. Africans in France). Does anyone who is intellectually honest believe that the problem is that the laws are not strict enough? Correlation does not imply causation. The gun control laws are caused by the high levels of violent crime, not the other way around - the same with the anti-free speech laws.
9/11 was intended to cause terror. No more, no less. It was a conspiracy of a bunch of men who decided they didn't like America. They flew a couple of planes into places. Honestly, do you think the U.S. government, incompetent as it is, could have kept something like that so secret?
No - ex post facto applies to criminal law, not civil law. Here are the four types of laws considered "ex post facto" in the U.S., established in Calder v. Bull:
"1st. Every law that makes an action , done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2nd. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3rd. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender."
Ex post facto laws are only those which punish people who were formerly innocent - not the other way around.
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I never said either type of law is helping.
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9/11 was intended to cause terror. No more, no less. It was a conspiracy of a bunch of men who decided they didn't like America. They flew a couple of planes into places. Honestly, do you think the U.S. government, incompetent as it is, could have kept something like that so secret?
No - ex post facto applies to criminal law, not civil law. Here are the four types of laws considered "ex post facto" in the U.S., established in Calder v. Bull:
"1st. Every law that makes an action , done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action.
2nd. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.
3rd. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed.
4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender."
Ex post facto laws are only those which punish people who were formerly innocent - not the other way around.
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