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To: WaterBoard

The only thing that talks is money. Sue the town into bankruptcy, and other towns will take notice. So sad that the Constitutional liberties so many fought and died for are carelessly trampled on.

Perhaps this is an emotional reaction, but the frequency and savagery of these stories is making me consider arguments legalizing drugs. I wonder if the “cure” is becoming worse than the disease.


9 posted on 01/16/2011 7:43:35 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: LostInBayport

Especially so perhaps because the “cure” doesn’t work. We have had nearly 50 years of the WOD and people are still getting high.


15 posted on 01/16/2011 7:56:27 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: LostInBayport
The only thing that talks is money. Sue the town into bankruptcy, and other towns will take notice.

Sorry, but this isn't the answer. Those in charge and even many voters have the attitude that "insurance will pay," and don't make the connection between insurance payouts and the premium levels rising.

The only way this will stop is when liability is assigned personally to those responsible. I don't want public employees afraid to do their job, but if there's negligence, it has to go onto the negligent, not the municipality in general. IMO.

17 posted on 01/16/2011 8:07:24 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: LostInBayport

“The only thing that talks is money. Sue the town into bankruptcy, and other towns will take notice. So sad that the Constitutional liberties so many fought and died for are carelessly trampled on.”

What would really happen, is that insurance companies wouldn’t write policies for cities with SWAT teams.


22 posted on 01/16/2011 8:18:54 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: LostInBayport

“The only thing that talks is money....”

While I am not the type of person who yells SUE THEM, SUE THEM... you are right that this is the case for the family to SUE THEM. If the town has to write a big, fat check then they will change how the police go about knocking down a door and terrorizing an innocent family. Suing simply causes policy change and this case screams for policy change. Just a thought.


31 posted on 01/16/2011 9:20:02 AM PST by momtothree
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