The Espionage Act was passed by Congress in 1917, two months after the US entered World War One. The law broadly criminalises the mishandling of government records "relating to the national defense" of the US. It is not strictly used to punish spies seeking to harm the US and in recent years has more often been used to punish whistle-blowers who expose government secrets to journalists. Mr Trump, whose presidency ended on 20 January 2020, was not allowed to hold or possess classified documents as a private citizen, much less in an unauthorised place, after leaving office. But prosecutors say he held on to hundreds of pages of sensitive information one year later at two of his resorts - even after he was asked repeatedly to hand everything over to the National Archives.
He may not be a “spy” but he’s still sharing / selling government secrets to their enemies
One good thing that might come out of this is Republicans repealing the Espionage Act. It does much more harm than good and is used to go after journalists and whistleblowers.
Trump being indicted is still extremely funny, though. "I did everything right and they indicted meeeee!"
I suspect that due to the politicization and polarizing nature of the issue we'll likely never know for sure - there's always going to be some question or doubt etc.
Personally, lab origin or no, i think the most relevant thing is preparing a system to track disease outbreaks very efficiently so when one crops up anywhere we can rapidly respond to it so it doesn't get out of hand.
It's that in most parts of the West as well. In the end this is just a legal line that has to be drawn somewhere. Ultimately it depends on the maturity of a person, which you cannot really measure or define in a way. 18 or even 21 might be pretty old for some people. 14 or especially 12 on the other hand is too young for probably most teens.
16 is the average for most US states, and IIRC, most European countries. Also, the practical AOC in Japan was generally higher because it was mostly dictated by like city/region laws instead of "federal" (national?) law.
Tbh this was my thought as well, and I don't care if it's like that in other parts of the world. Imo lower ages of consent simply enable predators.
13 makes that really obvious, 16 may make it more ambiguous to some, but try to remember when you were 16, maybe you were just getting a summer job or something adult-like, yet you were probably still foolish and naive about many things. You may have thought you wanted to get right out there into adulthood, even more than at 13, and that's exactly what some assholes are interested in taking advantage of.
Basically they raised it to the lowest allowed by almost all prefectures. If I remember correctly, only one went below 13. But that might have been an uninhabited island. It's a step in the right direction, and now weirdos won't have something to point to.
technically, the plants grow themselves - harvesting can be performed by anyone of any age.
not defending child labor or supporting it, but anyone who's grown up on a farm has violated child labor laws. additionally, those migrants/illegal aliens/seasonal farm workers usually need everyone working so they can afford a decent life when they go back to their country of origin - after all, it's not like anyone other than their parents is forcing them to harvest fields.
It's a weird situation. We seem to tolerate having these kids work on farms because there is an unsaid assumption that food is so important to our economy that we need to keep prices low at the supermarket. If family farms can't put their kids to work at 12, they would have to hire laborers at a fair price, which would drive up their costs. It's the same reason that Republicans rail against immigration; they need to keep these immigrants from having any working status, because once they do that have rights and can protest their poor treatment.
Even those advocating for better protections for children acknowledge this. They don't say "kids who work on farms need to be paid better", they say "kids shouldn't be working this early because they should have the chance to go to college and not have to work on a farm". What about the kids who want to work on a farm?
The only way to solve this is to pay farmers more. But that leads to eggs that are $8/dozen, which can't be tolerated either. And family farms compete with corporate farms, anyway. How much of my inflated grocery bill goes to those 12 year olds milking cows? I wager much less than what goes to the corporate farms.
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