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In a message dated 8/23/2004 3:16:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 8/22/04 8:11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:Wrong - If the landlord is held responsible for the mess - they can take it out of the security deposit. In a message dated 8/22/04 8:11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Every "permanent" person in the area knew it when he or she moved here. This doesn't excuse bad behavior. If they were smart enough to get in to Penn, they should be smart enough to be thoughtful neighbors. If not - hit them in the wallet until they understnd. Two hundred twenty-five years down the timeline of American political
thought, the "progressive Surf Dog" and the "LOIG Landlord" intersect.
"It is sufficiently
obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which
Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of
property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was
instituted. These rights cannot well be separated." --James Madison
A college town may well be the first independent opportunity for
middle-class youth to learn the concept of "quiet and peaceful enjoyment
of property". The most profound teachers of the rights of persons and
property can first be the youths' Landlords. When such education
is ineffective and community standards offended, punitive measures must be
implemented by first the Landlord, then the community, and finally
government.
Landlords who abrogate such responsibilities to educate their tenants
(regardless of social class) or remediate the effects of such disorder upon the
community, are not deserving of the title of Landlord and are deserving of
punishment alongside their tenants.
Dumping has become a plague in our City. It is time for local
government to become concerned more with the effective judicious
implementation of power, to protect the community, and less concerned
with being returned to power that they do not effectively wield, over the
community.
Craig
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