Comments on: Tennessee Outlaws Jerks http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/tennessee-outlaws-jerks/ The Tenther Grapevine Sun, 19 May 2013 10:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: DREGstudios http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/tennessee-outlaws-jerks/#comment-4777 DREGstudios Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:28:14 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=8044#comment-4777 You can see my response to this new law as a Tennessee artist on my artist's blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/07/potent… with my portrait of our Governor Bill Haslam and his ravishing wife.

]]> By: Jeff Matthews http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/tennessee-outlaws-jerks/#comment-4776 Jeff Matthews Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:02:09 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=8044#comment-4776 First, it takes a criminal charge against someone under the statute before there is any judicial review into the validity of the statute. What you can generally expect is that the prosecution will likely have a case against a real loser who made all sorts of threats to kill someone and their grandmother, etc.

This real loser, whoever it will be, will justify in the minds of some that "we need laws like this to go after scum like this loser." Others will make the slipper slope argument. And then, the debate begins.

]]> By: Jeff Matthews http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/tennessee-outlaws-jerks/#comment-4775 Jeff Matthews Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:03:21 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=8044#comment-4775 You're thinking like a lawyer. Good article! It's that same type of analysis that you can put to the U.S. Constitution and many other written laws to find out just how sloppy the human mind is. When you look at the plethora of examples out there like this, it can really be discouraging to think how almost impossible it would be to have a consistent system that actually works.

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