Posted on 10/17/2006 9:54:24 PM PDT by MadIvan
"You should walk into a bank wearing a ski mask, to see how free you are to wear masks, here."
Some banks require you to remove hats and sunglasses as well.
There is if you don't have the wisdom and common sense to use it wisely.
Do Amish women have a good reason to hide their faces?
I use my freedom wisely but I do not look to you to tell me what is wise.
Amish women don't hide their faces.
"Like I said, there's no good reason to hide one's face in public. Carnival is NOT a good reason."
Totally disagree. You need to get a life and not be so worried about people having fun.
I have to agree on this one.
going after the veils shouldn't be the target.
The things they need to go for broke on is:
No child marriages
No forced marriages
Deportation for anyone doing extreme preaching at mosques.
Maximum year sentences for honor killings (anyone in the family involved in it goes on trial as well).
"Amish women don't hide their faces."
Still a some women who wear veils on their wedding day.
Good job!!!
If someone used their "freedom" to break into my house, they would quickly find me using my imperative to educate them about my freedom to rip their ski mask off their face and shoot them between the eyes.
I agree. I do think that there should be reasonable exceptions. Drivers license photo, passport photo, police searches, etc.
Sorry you feel that way, it's a deadly philosophy that is destroying America, and rather quickly today. What many folks pass off as "freedom" today is actually just their base desires wanting to be unleashed without any consequences.
But when you ask the only real exprets, those who actually fought for freedom, what it is, they'll tell you it means freedom from government tyranny and oppression, freedom to educate yourself and work, freedom to practice the faith of your choice, (so long as it's a true religion with a peaceful end, and not a bloody, barbaric death cult all dressed up as 'religion'.) Freedom is the right to marry the person of you choice, providing she/he is your opposite sex and the marriage can bear fruit instead of packing fudge. Sodomy and the spreading of AIDS around by two men sodomizing each other is not marraige, but rather it is a mockery of the true meaning of marriage.
With freedom comes committments by those who are blessed with it, committments to vote, committments to fight the enemies of freedom when they pose a impending threat to our way of life. When "freedom" is defined as an open society that allows people to disseminate pornography under "free speech" protection, and it allows co-habiting homosexuals to sue corporations for the same benefits which married couples get, then that's not freedom, it's legalized vice.
When a country has public mask laws to help fight crime and make the streets safe, it is not "freedom" to allow some subculture from the medieval dark ages to walk around with full face masks and robes; that's just political correctness that endangers the majority who enacted the law.
For every person who could simply be caring on some innocent fun, there could be a person wanting to have "fun" at my expense. I agree w/ Mr. Straw. If someone wants to invade my personal space, they better be willing to let me see all their face, even if it's for a brief moment.
I have lived in a closed society and as well as open societies, I prefer the latter.
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