Mr Gore's only hope is that prosecutors and judges will decide that the letter of this law is too silly to enforce.Whether or not the vice-president is prosecuted (for the moment, the betting is against it), he has already been humiliated.
The good thing about quoting Shakespeare is that it usually sounds so perfect that whoever is arguing with you is suddenly less inclined to disagree with whatever point or idea you're using the quote to enforce -- whether or not they know the quote came from the Bard's pen.
We as a country have to decide what rights we want to enforce, and whether to enforce them with government agencies, or with private contractors.
So has the classic imperial tactic of using religious and ethnic divisions to enforce foreign occupation: whether by the Americans in Iraq, the French in colonial Syria and Lebanon or the British more or less wherever they went.
The Supreme Court has made it clear that "an agency's decision not to prosecute or enforce, whether through civil or criminal process, is a decision committed to an agency's absolute discretion.
Some two dozen new civic organizations have been galvanized by the tragedy, dedicated to various reform causes — though residents disagree over whether to enforce school safety with armed guards and whether Sandy Hook school, still a taped-off crime scene, should ever be reopened.
Others, including such "sex-positive" observers as Daniel Nardicio, a longtime producer of popular underwear parties in New York and on Fire Island, have pointed out that law enforcement agencies are obligated to enforce existing laws, regardless of whether one agrees with them or not.
Instead, the commission has to file a lawsuit and wait for a judge to decide whether to enforce them.
The council are now reviewing their decision on whether to enforce the order.
"Why should we even consider that in deciding whether to enforce the contract?" "It adds color," Kornstein said.
