Posted by David Kopel: Hate Speech from Eleanor Holmes Norton: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_15-2005_05_21.shtml#1116605392
Rick Santorum's foolish analogy about the German of Paris, which Master Conspirator Volokh recently [1]denounced, was an early favorite for the Most Ridiculous Statement by a Congressperson for the Week for May 15-22. However, Senator Santorum must now take a distant second place to D.C. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton. Opposing a NRA-backed bill to restore Second Amendment rights to the citizens of the District of Columbia, Norton claimed that the intended purpose of the bill was to kill children. [2]Stop the Bleating supplies the citations, and notes the difference between the claim that the bill would have the unintended consequence of causing innocent deaths (a type of legitimate argument which is made in the context of many different legislative debates on different issues) and Rep. Norton's vicious claim that the bill's sponsors are deliberately trying to cause the deaths of innocents. Eleanor Holmes Norton should apologize for her despicable slander. References 1. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_15-2005_05_21.shtml#1116573570 2. http://stopthebleating.typepad.com/stop_the_bleating/2005/05/eleanor_holmes_.html _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
