It’s not about the argument, it is about how controversially one can word one’s message.
Overdoing It
This story reminded me of certain comments left here at The Moderate Voice by more liberal people, accusing ‘rightists’ or people right of center, of trying to prevent people from exercising their right to vote:
A Brazilian law designed to ensure fair elections has kept police from arresting a 23-year-old law student who confessed to hiring hitmen to kill his mother.
Adriano Saddi Lima Oliveira told police he paid 40,000 reais ($18,433) to hitmen who killed his mother Marisa, a real estate tycoon, several months ago, a police investigator told local TV. Oliveira told police his mother was squandering his inheritance going out with her boyfriend.
Police wanted to arrest him but were unable to do so because of a law that prohibits anybody from being arrested five days before and two days after an election, unless they are caught in the act of committing a crime.
The law aims to curb heavy-handed tactics — like a local political chief trying to hang onto power by having his opponents arrested on election day and locked up until polls close.
That might just be overdoing it a little bit, no?