Today -100: November 9, 1926: Dangerous commotions are the worst kind of commotions

Evidently in response to the latest assassination attempt on Mussolini, the Italian Fascist Party is now weeding out insufficiently fanatical members. And banning performances in which animals are ill-treated or which might cause “dangerous commotions” or harm public morals, for example through hypnotic suggestion. Birth control information is banned (isn’t it already?). There’s also a new blasphemy crime. And a ban on giving newborns “ridiculous, shameful or subversive names.”

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