Links: Feds to “Protect” Feelings By Regulating Speech

Your blog is a weapon? Bill suggests that hurting feelings is illegal:

Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both…

That commerce clause sure was a good idea, wasn’t it? Perhaps Montana can make a law that any insults to Montanans first initiated in Montana are not subject to this new bill?

Hate Crimes bill dubbed ‘Pedophile Protection Act’

Criminalizing Criticism of Israel: Interesting article from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.

More on Spain’s investigation into US torture (it’s in the Guardian as a reprint from the Washington Post).

Yummy Race Car–if it breaks down, maybe you could eat it.

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