“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
Just substitute 'profits' for 'safety' and there you go.
- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
Just substitute 'profits' for 'safety' and there you go.
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Originally posted by: Boilerman
No, I don't want to be involved in such decisions. The business owners should be, however. Enforcement would best be handled by the mob, but since they're not involved any longer we'd have to rely on the police. I heavy hand would work best.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
No, I don't want to be involved in such decisions. The business owners should be, however. Enforcement would best be handled by the mob, but since they're not involved any longer we'd have to rely on the police. I heavy hand would work best.
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Originally posted by: alanleroyII
And you get to decide which humans are 'desirable' and which are 'undesirable'? How they can dress? What they can say? Maybe you could tattoo the ones you think are 'undesirable' so they'll be easier to round up.Quote
Originally posted by: Boilerman
I prefer that the undesireables are handled by local government, not by big government.Quote
Originally posted by: alanleroyII
So you wouldn't complain if President Obama started dictating what you could wear and where you could speak and what you could say? Real Conservatives don't like Big Government interfering with people's choices....and they don't just toss away our rights and freedoms that our military has defended with American blood for so long.Quote
Originally posted by: Boilerman
So you wouldn't complain if 50 homeless folks camped on the city owned sidewalk in front of your house for month on end? Liberals demand rights that supersede the rights they believe others deserve.Quote
Originally posted by: alanleroyIIQuote
Originally posted by: Boilerman
What about the rights of business owners? These people drive business away, and do you folks believe that they should have an unbridled license to cause financial damage?
I doubt that many people have stopped going to Vegas or visiting casinos because they fear the Street Performers like you and DR milled. You have stopped going to Vegas because of them, right?
Maybe for every Boilerman who has been driven away from Vegas Casinos because he fears the harmless street performer there is an AlanLeroyII who enjoys their performances and tips them for it and is more likely to visit the Casinos near where they work.
But even if your silly straw man exaggeration was true, these people have the same right to dress up in costume or make music or dance or sing or paint in public as you do to talk to yourself and hop on one foot.
And if you want to talk about 'unbridled license to cause financial damage', Americans also have a right to picket a business or boycott a business. I'm sure Boiler and DR think their Big Nanny State Government should take that away from the people too.
We have these rights and freedoms because brave men and women have defended them for over 2 centuries. I cherish them. You want to toss them into the trash can of prudish personal sanitation. Goody two-shoes
