Good morning class. Today is yesterday's tomorrow and I said we'd discuss PACs and SuperPACs, but something else has come up. I'm referring to the new North Carolina Bathroom Law. It's presented all the police forces in the state with a dilemma. According to Andy Borowitz of the New Yorker, the new cadets haven't as yet been deployed. The first class of over one thousand new bathroom-enforcement officers were just sworn in and are awaiting deployment.
Governor McCrory, in charging the new graduates, said "You are the thin blue line, charged with protecting the gender sanctity of North Carolina's bathrooms. Be careful out there." Of course it was all in fun. That is, except for the police forces throughout the state. That's because the poorly thought out bill did not provide any guidance on carrying out the law, which is a joke, except it isn't a joke.
So Samantha Michaels of Politico decided to check in with some of those police departments on their take on the bill, to which they mostly answered, HUH? None of the police knew what to do nor did any of their legal advisors, except to say they would respond to any calls of complaint. Honest folks, you can't make any of this stuff up. Well, except for the bit about a new Bathroom-enforcement officer deployment.
Apparently a less than intellectually engaged North Carolina Legislature rushed through this critical bill without giving thought to the obvious bigotry the bill exposed and named it the "Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, HB2." It also strikes down any and all LGBT anti-discrimination laws in the state. So now its okay to discriminate against these folks. I assume its because they aren't humans any more. Well, its their own fault, except that it isn't and they are citizens of America and deserve better than this.
Okay class, tomorrow, which will be Sunday's day after tomorrow, we'll talk about PACs and SuperPACs.
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