I also don\u2019t think there\u2019s a legal issue with airlines sharing their lists with each other<\/a>, as Delta has done with several other airlines since September. But a national \u201cunruly passenger no-fly list,\u201d created and updated by the U.S. Department of Justice, would use the executive branch of the federal government to enact another punishment upon the perpetrator, beyond the sentence enacted by the judicial branch in the court of law. Unless the felon\u2019s criminal sentence included, \u201cand you can never get on a passenger airliner again,\u201d this would represent the state coming back and declaring, \u201cOh, and we didn\u2019t seek this consequence during your trial, but we\u2019ve thought of another punishment we\u2019re going to enact.\u201d<\/p>\nOne of the animating spirits behind the push for criminal-justice reform was the idea that once a convicted criminal has served his sentence, he has paid his debt to society. The point is not to pile on additional punishments and difficulties in his life; the aim is to get that person back on the right track in life and steer them away from the choices that lead to criminal behavior.<\/p>\n
ADDENDUM:<\/strong> Thank you to everyone who has checked out my cover piece on the lab-leak theory<\/a>. The few objections I\u2019ve encountered so far are \u201cYou\u2019re not a scientist!\u201d \u2014 never said I was! \u2014 or that I\u2019m not a \u201cscience reporter<\/a>.\u201d We could fix the job-title issue with a phone call to Rich, but really, how long do you have to write about a topic like the pandemic before that stops being a legitimate objection? And then there are folks who contended that I was \u201ctwo years late<\/a>\u201d to the story. (Show me you know nothing about me without saying you know nothing about me.)<\/p>\nI notice no one is getting around to actually arguing, disputing, or countering anything that\u2019s written in the farshtunken article!<\/p>\n
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