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Originally Posted by Slava
I can't tell if you're unwilling or unable to distinguish between criticism and threats though. Politicians being criticized is absolutely fair game and no one seems to dispute that. But over the top threats of violence (and clearly they have been there) have no place. Wasn't Bill 6 about the time when people were basically making death threats on social media towards MLAs? I would be concerned for myself in that position as well, and no I don't think that is "just part of the job".
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What I am saying is its unavoidable, there will always be something that is crossing the line if there is a large enough population of responses.
So to make it as excuse to say that receiving these threats isnt fair for politicians to endure, is not a valid excuse. We can all agree that it shouldn't happen, but again referring to my previous post it is mathematically impossible to avoid. So as a matter of pragmatism we let law enforcement deal with those issues. No matter where we move the goal posts of what is and is not acceptable there will always be a small portion that lies outside of these goals.
Unless your willing to accept a total thought police environment, where every single individual is controlled as per a set of authoritarian rules we will never see a world where these threats dont exist.