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To: Liberal Classic
So children are to keep quiet if their parents break the law? Even if they are being harmed? You are scaring me.
200 posted on 12/13/2001 10:31:33 AM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Texaggie79
By the way, regarding the correlation between certain drugs and crime, I'd bet that only a few of them (perhaps cocaine, heroin and PCP, just to throw out a few guesses) could be shown to have an equal or higher correlation than alcohol. If so (yes, I know I'm in the land of hypotheticals here), how should those substances that don't show a relatively strong connection with other crimes be treated?
204 posted on 12/13/2001 10:39:48 AM PST by Polonius
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To: Texaggie79
So children are to keep quiet if their parents break the law? Even if they are being harmed? You are scaring me.

I figured you would try to spin this.

Implicit in this statement is that if a parent breaks the law then by definition the child comes to injury. Is it possible that it might not be true in some cases?

I can not count all the times my parents and grandparents broke the law, and even asked me to keep quiet. Especially when it came to the game warden. I can remember being explicitly told to duck if I saw the brown pick up they drove. A particular bird was a protected bird under the Endangered Species Act, but had not been removed once their numbers had returned. They had become so numerous that they were pests, so I was directed my the men in my family to kill as many as I could, and not get caught.

Let's see, what else. I learned to drive at an illegally young age on back country roads with parental approval. Just don't get caught. I can think of two handfulls of things I was allowed to do, even ordered to do and told not to get caught doing.

207 posted on 12/13/2001 10:47:51 AM PST by Liberal Classic
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