Dog Kontrol
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:00:00 GMT
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Cindy Sheehan at Common Dreams -
If You Believe in What You Are Doing, Give Me Your Stiffest Sentence. If You Don't, Then Resign -
title from a Ghandi quote. Ms. Sheehan describes her day in DC up to
an arrest for a die-in. She ends by saying that she intends to quote
the title of this piece to a magistrate. Guess she hasn't realized yet
that the gummint is corrupt from top to bottom. Ghandi's methods only
work when you're dealing with decent human
beings. [progressivenews]
# Chris Floyd at The Moscow Times - Future Perfect - a little wishful thinking. [progressivenews]
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2007 -- Calvin J. Hooper was sworn in today as the 49th President of the United States in a quiet ceremony that many hope will put an end to a tumultuous period that has seen the inauguration and resignation of five chief executives in the 12 months since former president George W. Bush fled the country for exile in Saudi Arabia.
# Patrick Hoge at The San Francisco Chronicle - Limits on felons owning dogs get OK - look, Ma. Dog kontrol in Kalifornia. What'll they think of next? [progressivenews]
The Contra Costa County board of supervisors unanimously supported on Tuesday prohibiting convicted felons from owning any dog that is aggressive or weighs more than 20 pounds, making it all but certain the proposal will become law when it formally comes before the board for approval Nov. 15.
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District Attorney Bob Kochly, whose office helped draft the proposed legislation, told supervisors that the new rules would improve public safety.
"We don't allow felons to own firearms,'' Kochly said. "A dog can be nearly as deadly, as we've seen in this county, as a firearm.''
# Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian - Drawing a Hardline in the Sand - a little fun with the Minutemen. Hehe.
In Haxawachie, Texas, Minuteperson volunteer Hattie McBatty is on the lookout for police checkpoint evaders. "Our fine law enforcement officers set up checkpoints for very good reasons," Ms. McBatty states forcefully from behind the viewfinder of her disposable drugstore camera. "I don't know what they're checking for, but that don't give drivers no right to turn around and go the other way when they see a checkpoint. If people would just toe the line we would have a perfectly safe town."
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True-blue Minutemen, however, have more on their minds than preventing illegal aliens from breaching our borders and snatching those cushy garbage collecting and toilet bowl scrubbing jobs away from willing American workers. They want to keep drug smugglers and terrorists out as well.
But any libertarian trainee can tell them how to do that. End the drug war and smugglers will be replaced by a few legitimate importers. And stop the terror threat by ending the government's fifty-year foreign policy of backing and baiting and toppling and befriending and funding and arming and regime-changing and sucking up to despots throughout the Middle East.
