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Dino
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 05:15 pm: | 
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Define "essential liberty." I'm guessing ol' Ben wasn't talking 'bout playing your music real loud after 11 p.m. or runnin' race pipes on your street bike. Just a thought. |
Witch1
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 05:25 pm: |
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Well Dino, If you'll read a little bit of the writings put out by our "fore-fathers"...ol' Ben, TJ, et al, essential liberties pretty much means for example that you should be able to play your music real loud after 11 p.m. or run race pipes on your bike...until those liberties start infringing on my liberties...like sleeping soundly after 11 p.m....and please don't reply with something pedantic about what's infringement and what isn't...you're a grown up and you know in your heart what's right and what's wrong. |
Dino
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 06:30 pm: |
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"...until those liberties start infringing on my liberties..."
Yep.
"you know in your heart what's right and what's wrong."
That's what my mommy use to say...usually when she expected me to identify right and wrong the same way she did.
Hope that wasn't too pedantic or anything. |
Witch1
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 06:43 pm: |
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LOL...wonder if our Mommies new each other...LAWD I was needin' a good laugh today...thanx...now I better go get that cornbread made or I'm gonna be hearin' 'bout rights alright..."...I've gotta right to get somethin' to eat when I get home...yadda yadda yadda..." |
Dino
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 06:49 pm: |
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Cornbread?!! Got some good chili to pour over it? And can I come over for dinner? I promise I won't be pedantic or nuffin' like that!
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M1combat
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 07:23 pm: |
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Oh man... Corn bread and chili sound WONDERFUL right now...
I suppose it might be because I have not had anything to eat all day though. |
Dino
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 07:25 pm: |
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Hey...wait a minute...don't i have a right to be just as pedantic as I wanna be? (Caveat...as long as I don't infringe on the rights of others.)
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Dino
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 11:37 pm: |
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John Jay
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Seanp
| | Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 06:42 am: |
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I'd kill a man for some good cornbread.  |
Phillyblast
| | Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 11:18 am: |
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Blake,
Not everything relates to terrorism. So-called "zero-tolerance" policing grew out of the "broken windows" theory - check here
have a safe long weekend everybody.
Peace
David |
Blake
| | Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 11:58 am: |
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Interesting article David. Thanks.
I agree that police who take an active roll in the community they patrol are hugely more effective. Simply a civil version of the military's "winning the hearts and minds" strategy. So if they start targeting otherwise upstanding members of the community in a zero tolerance agenda, it could have negative effects. |
