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To: Modernman
Please find that right in the Constitution.
My "right" to go to the ballpark is pretty well covered in the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness clause...makes me happy to go there [at least before the peanut police arrived].

"If the ballpark says "no peanuts," you can't bring peanuts in. Period."
Damn, you're sort of testy about this aren't you? I'm not even going to mention tobacco...jeeezzzeeee

"Certain customers requested that this business accomodate them. The business decided that doing so would be a good thing. Maybe they thought it would give good PR, maybe they just wanted to be nice to kids with allergies. It doesn't matter. Nobody sued them, nobody held a gun to their heads."

Isn't that nice...
"I'm not telling you to stay home. The ballpark is telling you to stay home if you won't abide by its rules. Why is that so hard to grasp?"

Oh, here we go...liberal trolls always try to underline their point of view with the "why is that so hard to grasp" line. Well, Mr. Bleeding Heart, I do grasp what you are saying, I JUST HAPPEN NOT TO AGREE WITH IT. Does your self-effacing sense of liberty not include that?

Anyone with evan a modium of common sense can see the irony of the tail wagging the dog here. If you can't see it, maybe you're not as "modern" as you think.

It's obvious that you are a card-carrying member of the peanut police, and are hell bent on having it your way...so, OK...have it your way.
52 posted on 06/15/2004 10:27:13 AM PDT by FrankR (There is no point in arguing with a signpost.)
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To: FrankR
My "right" to go to the ballpark is pretty well covered in the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness clause...makes me happy to go there [at least before the peanut police arrived].

Constitutional rights only apply when you are dealing with a government entity. You have the right to free speech, but I can kick you out of my living room if I don't like your opinions. You have the right to bear arms, but a private business can prevent you from bringing your gun on the premises. How about this- it makes me "happy" to drive your car without your permission. So, stopping me from doing so would violate my constitutional rights.

Damn, you're sort of testy about this aren't you? I'm not even going to mention tobacco...jeeezzzeeee

I'm testy about people demanding that a private business sell them certain things or allow them to bring certain things onto the premises when that business has decided otherwise.

Oh, here we go...liberal trolls always try to underline their point of view with the "why is that so hard to grasp" line. Well, Mr. Bleeding Heart, I do grasp what you are saying, I JUST HAPPEN NOT TO AGREE WITH IT. Does your self-effacing sense of liberty not include that?

That's your right, but it certainly is not your right to violate a private business' rules.

A private business passes a rule and yet you seem to be demanding that they respect your "right" to violate that rule? And you call me liberal? Sheesh. Your penumbra is emanating.

It's obvious that you are a card-carrying member of the peanut police, and are hell bent on having it your way...so, OK...have it your way.

I have no opinion as to whether or not businesses should do things like this. I really don't care whether they sell peanuts or not. I am in favor, however, of a private business being allowed to ban whatever (and pretty much whoever) it wants from its premises.

86 posted on 06/15/2004 11:15:43 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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