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Lots of places don't have strong constitutional protections, for anything. Not that long ago, the government in Canada started freezing citizen's bank accounts
by 908B64B197 4y ago
Lots of places don't have strong constitutional protections, for anything.
Not that long ago, the government in Canada started freezing citizen's bank accounts on suspicions they donated small amounts to a certain peaceful organization organizing protests the government didn't like. They just decided to suspend the constitution (because that's a thing over there?).
But what's interesting to see is people from Europe and Commonwealth nations voting with their feet and deciding that they too want more constitutional protections (which they are entitled to!). Here in the Bay it seems there's a constant interest from EU nationals to move to America (judging by the volume of applications we get). But I've never heard anyone interested to do the reverse.
Top destination for EU nationals in Academia was... right here in the US [0].
Interesting to speculate what impact the policies imposed by these non-elected EU bureaucrats will have on this demographic. More brain drain? Is it the intended goal?
[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-brain-trade http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
- leoedin 4y agoI hate to break it to you, but there's plenty of Americans living all over Europe. Here in London there's loads.
- desas 4y agoMaybe people are voting with their feet for constitutional protections. Maybe it's because the USA is significantly richer and pays more, there's likely to be a whole range of reasons. I work with several US nationals who have relocated to the EU.
- robopsychology 4y agoThe UK doesn't even have a constitution Also, as a European living in the Bay, part of it is for the higher salaries. If I can take my Bay rate and bring it back to Europe I'm going to do that.
- gweinberg 4y agoYes it does. It doesn't have a Constitution, but that's not the same thing as not having a constitution.
- robopsychology 4y agoOkay to put it another way the constitution is uncodified and weak - parliament can change constitutional laws at a whim due to no separation of powers and no-one could sit down and write it out anyway. So it's a pretty weird constitution if you can call it that, and many legal scholars argue it isn't one. https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688 https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688
- hgsgm 4y ago$51 is an expensive citation.
- somenameforme 4y agohttps://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688 https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688
- int_19h 4y agoUK operates on the notion of parliamentary supremacy, which makes any constitution, formal or informal, largely meaningless, since the Parliament can always override anything in it with simple majority vote: "It is often said that it would be unconstitutional for the United Kingdom Parliament to do certain things, meaning that the moral, political and other reasons against doing them are so strong that most people would regard it as highly improper if Parliament did these things. But that does not mean that it is beyond the power of Parliament to do such things. If Parliament chose to do any of them, the courts would not hold the Act of Parliament invalid."
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The UK doesn't even have a constitution It doesn't have a single written document titled “the Constitution”; but it has a constitution.
- CamelCaseName 4y ago"peaceful" is absolutely not the word I'd use for 18-wheeler trucks blaring their horns around the clock in a city center.
- MrPatan 4y agoOf course not, "peaceful" is reserved for burning buildings and cars.
- labster 4y agoI remember the good old days when people could be against riots regardless of their politics without getting canceled. But those days are long gone. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m pro-BLM. I’m not a racist or anything.
- hgsgm 4y agoI remember the good old days when you could be pro-riots and still agree that the behavior was illegal, because "burning the system down" was a position taken with honesty. When US "peacekeepers" invade a foreign country, that's illegal too.
- labster 4y agoNah, that’s just enhanced liberation techniques.
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- transcriptase 4y agoCareful, if any HN folk reside in Ottawa they’ll be all over you implying that honking horns is psychological torture and that everything is the fault of the RCMP and Provincial government for not shutting down protests first.
- labster 4y agoHey, post your street address online here. Me and some buddies will camp outside your house honking horns all night long for a month or two, all in completely harmless good fun as we all agree it’s simply free speech.
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- unconed 4y agoDid they honk horns at night? I seem to recall explicit calls to not do that.
- sangnoir 4y agoSleep deprivation is recognized as torture everywhere.
- hgsgm 4y ago> certain peaceful organization organizing protests the government didn't like. When you go beyond defending behavior, to go out of your way to avoid saying what you are talking about, you discredit yourself.
- mdekkers 4y ago> Here in the Bay it seems there's a constant interest from EU nationals to move to America (judging by the volume of applications we get). But I've never heard anyone interested to do the reverse. Plenty of Americans do just that, a friend of mine got his USA certificate of un-citizenship last week
- int_19h 4y agoCanada has a clause in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms that literally allows the legislature of any province to pass laws in direct contradiction to most of the Charter - specifically, the sections on fundamental rights. They just have to explicitly point out which parts of the Charter they found inconvenient when invoking this clause. Quebec is notorious for abusing this power (mostly for its language laws), but other provinces have also found it useful on occasion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...