Our inhumane treatment of those seeking refugee status, our support for illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and many more violations of decency are obvious.
From CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Glamour Magazine, Miami Herald, the AP, Bloomburg, LA Times, The Philidelphia Inquier and dozens of blogs and hometown papers, we have been asked hundreds of questions, some of which are good journalism tactics, and many of which are horrific invasions of privacy and violations of decency.
And while these expressions of North Korean love may seem conservative to a western viewer, they reflect real social norms in a country where even kissing in public is a violation of decency.
Christianity, he argued, was an integral part of the law of the land, and blasphemy that "insulted" that religion was "a gross violation of decency and good order".
At the minor end of the spectrum ― crimes in violation of decency, if not statute ― there is the president's encouragement of white supremacists, use of eliminationist rhetoric and praise for actions of genocide.
But the worst violation of decency goes to Spike Lee's wife, Tonya Lewis, who was wearing an incomprehensibly large and grotesque fur (if 75 small animals lose their lives for a basic fur coat, I'm afraid to take a stab, pardon the pun, at how many died for this one).
Previously, fines for violations of federal decency standards were $27,500 an incident.
We Palestinians saw how he well he understood the west, how far he could push it - he had an almost magical ability to measure how craven the response could be to his violations of common decency and international law, how much he could get away with.
The United States throughout its history has opposed such violations of human decency and law.
D. W. Griffith's 1915 film, "The Birth of a Nation," which played to enthusiastic audiences, including President Woodrow Wilson, gave these sensibilities wide cultural sanction, with its depiction of Reconstruction's democratic impulses as a violation of white decency and its celebration of the Klan for saving the South and reuniting the nation.
The allegations against MDC Brooklyn are "a violation of human decency and dignity," said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
