Police find 17 sex toys in local woman's car during DUI traffic stop

Longview News-Journal ^ | November 21, 2001 | John Lynch

[Unknown Freeper]

Kathy: "They can pry the dildo from my cold dead hands."

[longshadow]

Some states have laws governing moraility Negroes that others don't. And instead of accepting those differences and moving on, those states are ridiculed, accused of limiting freedom, and basically broken until they accept the ways of 'up here'. And the slide continues. [edited to illustrate a principle]

Now do you see the slippery slope your argument is on.... ?

[VadeRetro]

This happened where? Afghanistan? Nigeria? Indonesia?

[agrandis]

I agree with you in post 14 that government is way too intrusive here, the income tax game being the epitome of that evil. But what FOREIGNERS do you mention that have the chutzpa to criticize the US for that? Which country in the world has a government which is less intrusive, and less in control of its citizens' lives?

I really want to know, if such a country exits, I may consider looking for a job there. I know obscenity is more rampant in many other nations, but I don't take the public nature of obscenity to be a good gauge of personal liberty.

Maybe Belize is more free, but the government can be crooked there, and large, international environmental groups own much of the land there, so... I don't know which country a person could come from with room to talk about personal liberty.

[Physicist]

However for states that have a majority of citizens that don't want those laws to disappear, those states should not be ridiculed as evidenced on this thread

Absolutely they should. They should be ridiculed to the point where the people repeal the laws for no other reason than that they are tired of being razzed about them. Bad laws, when they are Unconstitutional, should be struck down by the Supreme Court, but when they are Constitutional, they cannot be. But being Constitutional doesn't make them good laws. A patriotic citizen, therefore, should exercise his First Amendment right in speaking out against such laws, until their supporters become too heartily ashamed of themselves to support them anymore. Ridicule is a very effective tool for this: Jay Leno is worth a thousand holy rollers.

In this way, the majority will become a minority. That's what's going on here. Nobody's trying to override the Will of the Majority; the point is to try to change the Will of the Majority. Why would you object to that?

[Desdemona]

Also I would imagine if you have proper barbeque.

Mmmm...it's different. They do whole cows. Up here, we have a thing for pork and pork parts (and as an in-ground gas grill is a standard appliance, we do a lot of it). You do it differently. Pork requires basting with vinegar and water to pull the fat out, at least for pork steaks. Beef is a different story.

[steve-b]

If objects "having the shape and often the appearance of the male genitalia" are illegal, the only free men left in the country are going to be Trent Lott (no balls), Bill Clinton (too small and bent), and Al Gore (it's just a cucumber in his pants for the photo shoot).

[Fury]

A drunk woman w/ 17 sex toys? Hot Dog!

The drunk matter is an issue. If the prosecutors are going after her for sex toys, well, it's no wonder we have much work ahead of us concerning terrorism.

[longshadow]

This happened where? Afghanistan? Nigeria? Indonesia?

The Puritan Paradise of Texas.

[FeliciaCat]

If the woman was drunk driving,that is the crime. The dildo charge is beyond ridiculous. Good to know the law has it priorities straight...NOT.

[agrandis]

So, should all states have the same laws? Perhaps we should abolish the states, and just call the nation "America." Maybe write a new Constitution? Just call the states "soviets" where bureaucrats administer the directives of Washington? What IS your argument, longshadow?

[oust the louse]

that's wierds,I'm a guy and i do the same......

[Fury]

If objects "having the shape and often the appearance of the male genitalia" are illegal, the only free men left in the country are going to be Trent Lott (no balls), Bill Clinton (too small and bent), and Al Gore (it's just a cucumber in his pants for the photo shoot).

LOL! Really LOL!!!

[steve-b]

If the citizens elected their state representatives that passed this law, then it should be enforced.

  "What is your definition of justice?"
  "Justice, Elijah, is that which exists when all the laws are enforced."
  Fastolfe nodded. "A good definition, Mr. Baley, for a robot.... A human being can recognize the fact that, on the basis of an abstract moral code, some laws may be bad ones and their enforcement unjust. What do you say, R. Daneel?"
  "An unjust law," said R. Daneel evenly, "is a contradiction in terms."
    -- Isaac Asimov (The Caves Of Steel)

May your gears clank lightly within you, and may posterity forget that you were our countryman.

[mafree]

Some of the posts on this thread are sure funny but come on- who was harmed by this lady hauling around a bunch of sex toys? You don't want em' don't buy em'.

[jjm2111]

Anything north of I-10 in Houston is "Yankee Country" to some.

[jjm2111]

Anything north of I-10 in Houston is "Yankee Country" to some.

[from occupied ga]

. Then it is the right of the state to set some level of which the majority of its citizens feel comfortable. At least the men who wrote those laws felt that way.

My my, your attempts at sarcasm when you're on the losing side are very gratifying. States have constitutions also. Their purpose is the same as the fed's namely to restrict the governments activities. In fact there isn't a single state that doesn't have one. (and not a sigle state that hasn't exceeded its constitutional authority) Not having looked through every state constitution, I can's say for a fact that what is true for GA is true for all of them, but Ga's constitution likewise says nothing about it being the duty of the legislature to set public standards for morality.

Furthermore, it is disingenuous of you to suggest that the founding fathers were so fearful of government that they wanted to restrict the role of the federal government, but had no such qualms about the state governments.

[jjm2111]

What do dildos and morality have to do with one another anyway?

[billbears]

No. Because the 2nd Amendment limits that right to the federal government. The 10th only covers anything not covered by the Constitution