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The last thing we need law enforcement to do is to determine what laws they
need to enforce. Enforcement is their responsibility and what we as
taxpayers have empowered them to do. The Legislature can change the law,
the Governor can veto any proposed law or change in existing law and the
courts can interpret the law but those are the rules of the game. Follow
the law, change the law but anyone who thinks they are above the law needs
to be ready to accept the outcome that they and they alone have created for
themselves.
Responsibility must have consequence to be effective.
Paul B. Double
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:55:04 EST
>Subject: Re: [Winona] Chucker's and a Public Servant
If ever there was an argument for lowering the drinking age back to 18, or at
>least 19, this raid provides it.
>According to the WDN none of the arrested minors
>were less than 18 years old. One can assume that most if not all were
>students at one of Winona's universities out on a Friday night.
>There is nothing in the story to indicate that any of the arrested
>individuals were causing a distrubance, other than the one who was arrested
>for obstructin police work, yet the police force found it necessary to raid
>this licensed establishment on a weekend to arrest these citizens who were
of
>legal aid for any other adult activity.
>I am not trying to be critical of the police force, per se, just to suggest
>that a) the legal age for consumption of alcholo needs to be lowered to be
>more in accordance with common sense; and b) not every technical violation
of
>the law need be dealt with in such a forceful matter.
>
>Dean A. Lanz
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