[Cultural Jihad]

My peers include many countless veterans, but only those who likewise offered the ultimate sacrifice so that others can live in a country free from boorish questioners.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"My peers include many countless veterans,"

You just can't bring yourself to admit that you have never served your country,
yet you know so much about veterans and what is right or wrong for them.
Dismissed (that's military talk that means you can leave this thread now.)

[redrock]

Go HERE .....and ask any of them if a Viet Vet has earned the Right to walk the streets with his dog...and protect the Flag of this Nation.

redrock

[Liberal Classic]

My peers include many countless veterans, but only those who likewise offered the ultimate sacrifice so that others can live in a country free from boorish questioners.

We do not live in a county free of boorish questioners. We live in a free country. You do not have the right to be free of offended sensibilities. If this man is neither a thief nor a mugger, what is his life to you except that his smell is unpleasant and his sight is uncomfortable to you? If half of what is said about him is true, he has earned a nice home and three squares. However, he has not the means or the will to keep a house so he lives in a box with a dog. In the name of freedom, you would take him from his box and lock him up in a padded cell?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

On another subject I think most of us would agree philosophically with CJ. Were this a non-vet hippy dopehead who just wanted to crash by the monument between begging and stealing we would think that CJ's arguments were well stated. What we really need is government functionaries, like code enforcers, who are patriotic, well read, sensitive, and thoughtful - characteristics rarely found in public service in today's America. With today's screwed up values we are more likely to find the functionaries and their ilk, and there are a lot of ilk out there, defending the rights of a druggie and his dog instead of a patriot like Robert Northcut. Examples like Mr. Northcut make it painfully obvious how wrong the liberals were and continue to be. They certainly don't want examples like that front and center for everyone to see.

Our differences are not with the pure argument as being made by CJ but that the wrong exceptions to those rules are being made by our liberal government bureaucrats. The judge was good, the lawyers were good, but the code enforcer was very strict in a way that a patriotic and sensitive person would not be. (And they are the ones, the liberals, who don the mantle of sensitivity.) The code enforcer should have bent the rules in this case and the rest of the city government should have allowed it.

By the way, has anyone checked to see if there really is a city code or law making visiting that monument trespassing? Perhaps he didn't really break the law.