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<blockquote data-quote="wowbagger" data-source="post: 17507793" data-attributes="member: 17039"><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Hi Bear,</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I was living in LA during the riots as well. I watched most of the smoke from my rooftop and some of my senior year finals were postponed because of curfew (only for my night classes, and I had to take them after I graduated).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It was correct for the NG forces to come in to restore order at that time where the day-to-day police could not handle the burden. Please tell me what that has to do with NYC in a non-riot peace-time mode doing voluntary bag searches on a subway? Should every city take more extreme measures "just in case"?</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Wouldn't we all be safer with a cop on every corner? Would you vote for that? as well and pay for it with your taxes? Wouldn't domestic abuse decline if we had cctv in every home? Are you in favor of that too? We could definitely prevent many many crimes!!-- but at what cost? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Think about it. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">What you are essentially advocating is a police state not unlike parts of China, "old" Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc... Is that really what you think America should be? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 12px">wowbagger</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wowbagger, post: 17507793, member: 17039"] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]Hi Bear,[/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]I was living in LA during the riots as well. I watched most of the smoke from my rooftop and some of my senior year finals were postponed because of curfew (only for my night classes, and I had to take them after I graduated).[/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]It was correct for the NG forces to come in to restore order at that time where the day-to-day police could not handle the burden. Please tell me what that has to do with NYC in a non-riot peace-time mode doing voluntary bag searches on a subway? Should every city take more extreme measures "just in case"?[/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]Wouldn't we all be safer with a cop on every corner? Would you vote for that? as well and pay for it with your taxes? Wouldn't domestic abuse decline if we had cctv in every home? Are you in favor of that too? We could definitely prevent many many crimes!!-- but at what cost? [/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]Think about it. [/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]What you are essentially advocating is a police state not unlike parts of China, "old" Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc... Is that really what you think America should be? [/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3]wowbagger[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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