To: liberty or death; Victoria Delsoul
Remember -- you're talking about a city that has basically functioned as a police state for decades. A 911 system wasn't enough in New York City, so they instituted a 311 system to deal with calls from city residents trying to find their way through the city government's bureaucratic maze for "non-emergency" situations.
At any rate, there is no reason to expect anything remotely resembling "real men" in a city that was one of the first to ban smoking in private establishments and is soon going to impose dietary restrictions on restaurants, too.
26 posted on
12/04/2006 1:08:57 PM PST by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Alberta's Child
Remember -- you're talking about a city that has basically functioned as a police state for decades. Plenty of New York residents have escaped actual police states and are delighted to live in NYC precisely because it is the opposite of what they have endured.
Describing NYC as a police state is ridiculous.
Life in NYC is overregulated in a number of respects, but the rule of law prevails.
29 posted on
12/04/2006 1:12:22 PM PST by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Alberta's Child
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