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2007-11-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-18 11:14|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Dr. Szasz is an atheist, and being 87 years old, will also be testing that theory shortly. Meanwhile, Great Britain puts homeowners in jail and anger management classes for defending their property against the misunderstood yobs who are just as sane as they are, and maybe moreso.

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-11-18 12:44|| 2007-11-18 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The reason the pols really don't care directly about crime is because it is not a direct threat to their power. It only becomes a threat when enough voters get pissed off and start backing someone promoting 'law and order'. To paraphrase Governor William J. Le Petomane, "We've gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs, gentlemen!" That's why they went after Benny Goetz. He was treated as a direct threat to the legitimacy of the state which had/has treated its citizens as expendable to the sociopathic elements of the society. That's why governments around the world will spend an inordinate amount of time and effort going after those who defend themselves, their families, and their property because it shows the rest of the citizenry that the state is unable or unwilling to perform one of the fundamental rationales for the existence of the government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-18 14:13|| 2007-11-18 14:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Szasz is being unfairly pilloried as relativizing deviancy, though it is fair to say that he helped empty the institutions, but not as much as Jack Nicholson. Szasz also said that society could pass laws to punish behaviour and that people were responsible for their behaviour, i. e. no insanity defence as there is no such thing as insanity but there is such a thing as anti-social behaviour. You do the crime, you do the time.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-18 15:39|| 2007-11-18 15:39|| Front Page Top

#4 If they are in your house they are fair game to shoot.

Posted by 3dc 2007-11-18 16:33|| 2007-11-18 16:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Texan.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-18 16:35|| 2007-11-18 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 To admit that the terrorist is deviant, or that something is awry in his culture, would violate one of the central tenets of progress: all cultures are equalon the condition that they be oppressed. Western culture, like the homeowner, deserves no protection.

Good article. This is precisely why I have ZERO faith in the democrats ever managing to adequately deal with terrorism. They simply will not accept responsibility for the logical outcome of their multiculturalist agenda.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-18 16:57|| 2007-11-18 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The reason the pols really don't care directly about crime is because it is not a direct threat to their power.
P2K gets the Qupie Doll.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-11-18 18:58|| 2007-11-18 18:58|| Front Page Top

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