«Would this administration use a declaration of a national emergency to further an agenda that places at its center health - based solutions, or would it then turn around and say, we have an emergency,
we need draconian legislation like sentencing laws, or crackdowns on people who use or misuse opioids?»
Not exact matches
Many worry that authoritarian politicians are using the heightened state of alarm to smuggle in
draconian new pieces of
legislation, not least on media freedom - although on that matter the media handed politicians most of the weapons they would
need to challenge them due to their catastrophic mishandling of events following the Charlie Hebdo attack.
If, for example, some copying is beneficial or harmless to the copyright holder, how
draconian does the
legislation really
need to be?