pbearperry
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From what I see every day,I think a terrorist act could occur and most of the people in the area would be unaware of it.They are all busy text messaging and talking on the phone.:banghead:
I don't feel like dying so a teeny-bopper can text "lol". I have no problem with such crackdowns.
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The problem is that this leads to others not willing to stand up for you to do whatever it is you do.
It's not about texting. It's not about firearms. It's not about what we individually think is right or wrong.
The issue with the notion of "I don't have a problem with some random authority doing <x>" is that that very notion leads to anything ranging from fascism, over dictatorships, up to a tyranny of the masses a la California. So yeah.
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The gaping hole in your argument is that talking on a cell phone while driving is not one of the Bill of Rights.
That argument could be copy-pasted to defend NAMBLA, quite frankly. The argument of "the repression of liberties" doesn't work for every single thing the government doesn't allow. The social contract means that if the majority wants to make something illegal, or if something involves people infringing on the rights of others (you know, like the right to be alive) it will be illegal, unless it is an inalienable right. Neither driving or texting are inalienable rights.
Madacore that's 40 years ago, we had race riots with 6 shooters and there was no global economy like today, bury your head in the sand, I was in harlem the night they burned it down that's a totally different scenario, talk about apples and oranges. Now your taalking abot a country with a paid army about 1/3 the size we need. The president cutting back defense spending on the joint fighter strike force, and the latest weapons for our troops on hold. You need to catch up.
Texas Bill,
I suggest you read Final Report by the Oklahoma bombing investigatiion committee if you believe that McVeigh and Nichols were the master minds behind the bombing....