Posted on 08/10/2006 2:02:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, the Berkley of the Midwest.
The Dems are just playing to their large African American voting bloc in the inner city.
Any concern at all about the First Amendment right of Free Assembly?
Hmmmmmm. Methinks you might be comparing apples and oranges. There is a difference between "loitering" and Free Assembly. There are laws against "loitering".
I guess 4 or 5 prostitutes on the same street corner would be "Free" Assembly until "money" is exchanged.
There are easy solutions - most people are too weak to accept them.
(Sorry I had to go last night. D@mn family; always wanting meals and clean socks & undies on a regular basis, the ingrates! Don't they realize that I have Crime Fighting Duties to attend to?) ;)
"That still doesn't make it a good law or a good idea."
Well, where do you draw the line then between the "rights" of roving gangs of thugs and the regular citizenry?
Step back and zoom out and see the Bigger Picture. If crime isn't stomped out when it first raises it's head, it all goes downhill from there. Broken Window Theory, Anyone?
I stated in an earlier post that gang activity is moving into the surrounding Red areas, seeping in from the Blue area of Madistan.
Madison and Milwaukee (Dane & Milwaukee counties) have our highest crime rates in the state. The ('rat) Governor constantly shifts money from the red areas of our state to the blue areas trying to combat these problems, with little success becuase he thinks like a 'rat.
In the long run, I may not have the State Highway that I live on repaired in a timely manner because funds are directed to either of those crime-ridden cities. Say I'm on the Interstate and I hit a deer and there's no State Trooper around to come to my aid because there are less Troopers out there because funds had been directed to the cities again?
See what I mean? I'm not disagreeing that people have rights, but why is it always that the Bad Guys get the money that the Good Guys pay for with their tax dollars to provide city & state services? Do ya really think these gang members, who are out at 3am are getting up again at 6am to shower, shave, go to the office, earn their paycheck and pay taxes? LOL!
It's just frustrating. It's hard to watch it happen before your very eyes. I think I should go back to ignoring the cancer that's growing all around me. (Not!)
"If crime isn't stomped out when it first raises it's head, it all goes downhill from there. Broken Window Theory, Anyone?"
TOUCHDOWN.
The key is to never let the seed sprout, and when it does -pour kerosene on it, or simply squash it. Of course that defies Human Nature (which I have preached a few times here on FP regarding Corporate Thought/Attitude).
It takes decent men, specifically the Police, who know when to be laid back, and know when not to be. Very hard to do.
The Movie "Road House" had a great scene where Swayze is teaching the Bouncers how he wants the Security of the Bar to be run.
Anyone remember his Rules?
Anyone remember his Rules?..."
I think it went something like
"Be nice, until it's time to be not nice."
Although I might be thinking of the movie "Red Dawn", which also has some applicable lines.
Yup, pretty much exactly as he said. That's how a cop should act.
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