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Old 20-10-2007, 09:08 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Smidgey View Post
Of course I am not fan of these things. However, I would rather have these things than have my civil liberties infringed in order to prevent them. Guiliani (yes, he is the transvestite), in his role as mayor of New York, has destroyed the first and second amendments of the U.S. constitution. Crime can be conquered and it could have been conquered in New York without the destruction of one of the greatest political documents that has ever been written.

P.S. I'm wondering why you have a Milton Friedman quote as your signature, considering he was also against the drug war.
I'm not really a fan of codified constitutions, personally. I also have no idea how Guiliani 'destroyed' amendments to it, nor, frankly, do I care. The issue is zero-tolerance policing - Guiliani being a transvestite (something else I couldn't care less about) has nothing to do with this.

My point is, zero-tolerance policing of low-level crime is welcome in my book. I despise both littering and graffiti, and would be more than happy to see people prosecuted for both. I don't see how enforcement of these laws is an infringement of your civil liberties.
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