You have not explained how me standing in your driveway makes you a 'victim'? What have you suffered? What harm or damage have I inflicted? Surely it cannot be a crime until/unless I harm/damage you or your property.
Do you know what else should be sacrosanct? My ability to drive my car on a road and not have to worry about a drunk driver hitting me. Or someone who thinks speed limits should not exist and loses control of their vehicle, or decides that red lights and stop signs should be mere suggestions - all this because they are in 'Murica and feel they can do whatever they want with a complete disregard for others. Freedom does not mean you can do whatever you feel like and not suffer the consequences. You should spend some time riding with your local EMS crew to experience the real damage that driving drunk can cause. Try to triage a scene where you determine that the drunk driver gets treatment over the dead infant in the back seat of the car he hit because you have limited resources. Try to care for a drunk driver who just killed one of your best friends (who was bringing you dinner at the EMS station) and have to listen to that drunk driver call your friend a 'cunt' because he ran a red light and hit her car. I have had to do those, and more. If I have to answer a few questions from a police officer late at night in an effort to ensure no one else has to experience things like that, I am OK with it. Apparently (and thankfully), so are a lot of other people. You can call it 'hypothetical safety', but the fact is, the fewer drunk drivers there are on the road, the safer the roads get. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:35 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right, should they be involved, key > > Property rights are unique in the United states. They should be sacrosanct > but have been worked to near meaningless platitudes at this point. Zoning > laws, hoas, new police powers, anti discrimination laws. > > Its disgusting to me. How can you sit here and defend the corrupt rotten > hulk of this one great republic. > > We know power corrupts. We know government will not assume a power with > out using it. We know the government grows not shrinks. > > Letting the small shit slide is how we get to nonjudicial killings and > detention with out charge and stop and frisk. Letting them prohibit crack > and weed lets them prohibit fatty foods and big gulps. > > I'm tired of it. Sick of the platitudes about liberty and freedom when I > see very little of either anymore. > > -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:365316 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
