Post #129,055
12/4/03 11:27:31 PM
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Let's make it mandatory in order to get a license
And weekly thereafter for every citizen of the land of the free.
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Post #129,082
12/5/03 10:26:53 AM
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Hmm...I detect..
...a very healthy dose of sarcasm, there.
Of course...its for the CHEELDRUN.
Lets start down that slope of invasion of privacy at the tender young ages...that way they'll be used to it when they get older.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #129,093
12/5/03 12:02:18 PM
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Do you have privacy at a school?
We've been going down this slope for a LONG time.
I seem to recall my locker could be opened by School Officials at any time.
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Post #129,099
12/5/03 12:13:13 PM
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Correct, do you have privacy at work?
Chances are you don't, and they are watching you, monitoring your computer with Spyware, and checking who you call on your phone.
There just isn't a lot of trust and privacy out there anymore. The Schools are just the start of it. Remember the girl who got in trobule for what she wrote in her diary? It was her own private dirary, but a teacher read it and the girl got in trouble for it.
What exactly are we teaching children when we say we can't trust them and that they have no privacy?
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Post #129,122
12/5/03 1:10:23 PM
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Just because..
...we've been heading down that slope doesn't make it better.
And your locker was >school property<. A childs hair and blood samples are NOT. Nor can any current test determine if behavior is on or off of school time.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #129,123
12/5/03 1:12:32 PM
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Property rights
are a wonderful thing, aren't they. While I'm a lefty, property rights are so key (they are the foundation to security of the person, after all) that any attempt to weaken them needs to be resisted.
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Post #129,125
12/5/03 1:15:38 PM
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They are foundational.
And since the US has become so litigious, we all must be extremely protective of what is ours and what happens with/to it.
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Post #129,128
12/5/03 1:26:10 PM
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One place where your (and ours, for that matter) legal
system could use some work. A lot of the times it seems like the wrong lawsuits win while the right ones lose. Woman with McDonalds coffee... surprise, coffee is hot! Major polluter of ground water that destroys farmers' livelihoods... surprise, there's nothing you can do!
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Post #129,131
12/5/03 1:34:52 PM
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Amen to that.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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