Nicholas Bequelin, Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, said: "Whereas surveillance cameras are problematic even in democratic societies, there are important counterweights, such as independent courts, privacy statutes, rules about how long the information can be kept and through what legal procedures it can be accessed, as well as independent media and NGO watchdogs.
Last summer Mr. Watters asked Gov. Jim Douglas of Vermont about that state's criminal statutes and asked, "About how many dead girls are we going to tolerate here?" Sometimes the questions are statements.
How about 11? How about nine?
The statute was not specific about how far a recently arrived visitor might "with good faith, and within reasonable time" travel into town while carrying a firearm.
A statute of limitations reform bill came right to his desk a few years ago, and he vetoed it and talked about how important statute of limitations were, and basically mimicked the bishops.
In the end, the opponents' argument is merely about how the statute is phrased, rather than about its substance.
While all of the petitioners agree that EPA's interpretation is impermissible, they disagree about how the statute should be interpreted.
There had been talk about how the statute of limitations might constrain the trades prosecutors could use, but the wire and securities fraud provisions allow evidence of conduct outside the limitations period so long as there was at least one act within that period.
How about annotated statutes: who knows how many of the cases cited on online platforms are holdovers from the soon-to-be print publications of yesteryear?
Congress also provided that the federal district courts could hear only constitutional challenges to the statute itself, not garden-variety complaints about how the secretary was carrying out his authority.
