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Fri Feb-13-09 10:14 AM
Response to Reply #24 |
| 32. Drug laws in this country are entirely racist |
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All you have to do is look at the % of blacks and hispanics in jail for drugs compared to whites. This is a civil rights issue.
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| -Should we only follow the laws we agree with? |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 09:02 AM |
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How many of us upstanding US Citizens have "exceeded the speed limit" on occasion? |
ShortnFiery |
Feb-13-09 09:06 AM |
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legalize |
pnutbutr |
Feb-13-09 09:14 AM |
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Saw this one coming a mile away. |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 09:16 AM |
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By your reasoning, we would never advance or progress as a nation. |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 09:37 AM |
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I never said we shouldn't change laws. |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 09:47 AM |
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How do you feel about the sit-ins during the civil rights movement? |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 09:53 AM |
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But what about when slavery was legal, should those people |
Uncle Joe |
Feb-13-09 03:15 PM |
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'I would have never tested positive for a DUI but ANYWAY..." |
ShortnFiery |
Feb-13-09 03:31 PM |
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True |
atreides1 |
Feb-13-09 09:09 AM |
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Yes. |
Le Taz Hot |
Feb-13-09 09:10 AM |
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We do it all the time |
Marrah_G |
Feb-13-09 09:12 AM |
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What can they charge Phelps with? |
JonLP24 |
Feb-13-09 09:15 AM |
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Huge. Really huge. |
H2O Man |
Feb-13-09 09:16 AM |
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Nearly 900,000 People Were Arrested In 2007... |
jayfish |
Feb-13-09 09:51 AM |
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It is rediculous the time and money wasted on this crap |
Marrah_G |
Feb-13-09 11:07 AM |
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"I'm not comparing the actual laws ... that is irrevelant." |
Bill McBlueState |
Feb-13-09 09:19 AM |
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That would be your state legislature, |
polmaven |
Feb-13-09 09:44 AM |
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Again this isn't about changing laws. It's about FOLLOWING laws that exist. |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 09:50 AM |
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Plato had Socrates discuss this at length in CRITO |
NAO |
Feb-13-09 09:26 AM |
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Breaking an unjust law is fine, if you are prepared to deal with the |
Lance_Boyle |
Feb-13-09 09:28 AM |
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Yep. Germans who refused to follow the 3rd Riech's laws has a duty to be caught and |
John Q. Citizen |
Feb-13-09 09:47 AM |
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Yeah, those blacks should have never sat at the whites-only counters. |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 09:34 AM |
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I agree with you that some laws are just plain stupid |
pipi_k |
Feb-13-09 10:06 AM |
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The participants of civil disobedience actions fully |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 10:12 AM |
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Well, I do agree that people should generally be able to do whatever |
pipi_k |
Feb-13-09 11:10 AM |
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I don't see any revelant laws that Phelps can be charged with |
JonLP24 |
Feb-13-09 10:18 AM |
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Honestly, I don't either |
pipi_k |
Feb-13-09 11:12 AM |
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It is silly. He also isn't the only one with a video or photo of him smoking something |
JonLP24 |
Feb-13-09 11:19 AM |
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Your OP only makes sense if there is some legitimacy to our laws |
Romulox |
Feb-13-09 09:35 AM |
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Wow. That's about as strong and argument as I've ever seen on the subject. |
DCKit |
Feb-13-09 09:54 AM |
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Should people break laws that require discrimination against a group based on color or national |
John Q. Citizen |
Feb-13-09 09:40 AM |
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The war on drugs has grown into a disaster. People are working |
midnight |
Feb-13-09 09:47 AM |
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Oh my...are you comparing pot-heads to Dr. King? |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 09:56 AM |
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He is relevant to what you are discussing |
JonLP24 |
Feb-13-09 09:58 AM |
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No. YOU ARE! |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 10:03 AM |
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See #20 And Add This To It. |
jayfish |
Feb-13-09 10:07 AM |
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Drug laws in this country are entirely racist |
cbc5g |
Feb-13-09 10:14 AM |
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Some laws are stupid |
JNelson6563 |
Feb-13-09 09:59 AM |
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Agreed. Who's to say what's right and what's wrong? |
Xenotime |
Feb-13-09 02:27 PM |
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I'll let Martin Luther King Jr. answer you |
cbc5g |
Feb-13-09 10:09 AM |
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If it's up to the law-breaker to determine what is or isn't an unjust law... |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 10:36 AM |
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So Rosa Parks should have went to the back of the bus? |
cbc5g |
Feb-13-09 10:38 AM |
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So abortion bombers are analagous to Rosa Parks? |
Occam Bandage |
Feb-13-09 10:42 AM |
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Um what are you talking about? |
cbc5g |
Feb-13-09 10:44 AM |
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serrano2008 brought up a valid line of argument: |
Occam Bandage |
Feb-13-09 10:49 AM |
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You're right |
cbc5g |
Feb-13-09 10:56 AM |
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You are stretching to keep this failed argument going. |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 10:41 AM |
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You think you're doing better comparing a marijuana user to Rosa Parks? |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 12:28 PM |
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So, one more time. Parks, and the other civil rights activist were wrong, |
tekisui |
Feb-13-09 02:25 PM |
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killing an abortion doctor doesn't challenge any law allowing |
Bluerthanblue |
Feb-13-09 04:45 PM |
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But it's the duty of law enforcement to enforce even unjust laws. |
Donald Ian Rankin |
Feb-13-09 11:04 AM |
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First of all, attorneys don't enforce laws. |
Romulox |
Feb-13-09 11:43 AM |
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Ultimately, yes. |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Feb-13-09 10:15 AM |
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Thank you |
serrano2008 |
Feb-13-09 10:29 AM |
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Wow, one of the best answers to a legitimate question I've read here in quite some time. n/t |
Greyhound |
Feb-13-09 02:32 PM |
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At least you think Bushco |
Bluenorthwest |
Feb-13-09 10:37 AM |
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I don't think I agree |
Ohio Joe |
Feb-13-09 10:38 AM |
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I don't believe he'll have to deal with anything |
JonLP24 |
Feb-13-09 11:04 AM |
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ahhh, but he does have to deal with it |
Ohio Joe |
Feb-13-09 11:09 AM |
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I understand and you're right |
JonLP24 |
Feb-13-09 11:14 AM |
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We should follow the laws we agree with to the extent that |
Occam Bandage |
Feb-13-09 10:38 AM |
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Only if there is no workable mechanism to overturn them |
ThomWV |
Feb-13-09 10:45 AM |
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You mean like a Congress that refuses to move in spite of the wishes of an |
Greyhound |
Feb-13-09 02:34 PM |
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Well we know Republicans consider Felony Perjury Laws irrelevant |
Winterblues |
Feb-13-09 11:50 AM |
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Civil Disobedience- ask Thoreau |
Bluerthanblue |
Feb-13-09 02:42 PM |
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I'm a moralist (in the better sense of the word), not a legalist |
Oak2004 |
Feb-13-09 03:07 PM |
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Depends on the law |
treestar |
Feb-13-09 03:10 PM |
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Oh for Christs Sake |
4 t 4 |
Feb-13-09 03:39 PM |
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Hmm I did not deserve that |
treestar |
Feb-13-09 05:03 PM |
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MY body, MY rules. |
iamthebandfanman |
Feb-13-09 03:33 PM |
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Point well taken. n/t |
Still Sensible |
Feb-13-09 03:45 PM |
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I only follow laws I agree with. |
Evoman |
Feb-13-09 04:16 PM |
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your taking it to an extreme |
4 t 4 |
Feb-13-09 04:24 PM |
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Yes. Fuck the prohibitionists. |
MrSlayer |
Feb-13-09 05:03 PM |
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It's called "civil disobedience"--and all citizens need to practice it |
librechik |
Feb-13-09 05:07 PM |
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Sometimes Civil Disobedience is necessary. |
NutmegYankee |
Feb-13-09 05:24 PM |
#76 |
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