Germany and the rest of the EU don't have a crime problem because where they don't have as many petty crime law, they do have strict enforcement of laws. I'm just saying the way Americans think. The people of this country decided that we should have anti-drug, and anti-alchohol, etc. etc. and so we do. We also decided to not let officers carry sub-machine guns unholstered and to have futher limitations on our police, including accountability of actions if the public disapproves. I remember in Italy the cops did what they wanted to and no questioned what they did. I had a friend who was sexual harrassed by a cop in Italy and there was nothing she could do. In America, you call the press, call a lawyer, file a complaint, and you can get a settlement or the cop suspened.
True the Drug War is a mistake... but that only effects a very small part of the population. Ghettos mainly.
Stalin didn't have so many in prision because he just killed them. Also the KGB kept the people in line so they were afraid to break the law.
Alchohol prohbition was proposed by Women's Sufferage advocates. And it was a direct result of giving the women the right to vote. The majority wanted it.
Our Drug policies are not as harsh as most countries.
That quote about the prison industry has been circling around since Euguene Debs said it back near the turn of the century. I almost garruntee that the tech-sector beat it out until the Nasdaq adjustment.
But I do agree legalize the softer stuff and tax it to hell.
Read Locke's Treastise on Gov't sometime. We give up freedom for the common good. Your definition of freedom is anarchy. Should I be free to drive drunk? Should I be free to shoot someone? Should I be free to rape someone? No, No, No. True sometimes the government goes to far (damn liberals) and puts laws on private choices. But its also true drinking and smoking age limits were put into place because the majority of Americans wanted them. You have to remember thanks to politics the US Gov't doesn't do shit unless most people agree...why? Because they all want to be re-elected.
You know what I would like to see the percent of Cops that break the law... I have a feeling that number would be the same as the number of citizens that break the law. Wouldn't that be funny. See the thing is Guy sodomizes co-worker and is caught. Zero publicity. Cop sodomizes prisioner. The media goes nuts. We always treat Cops, Politicians, Movie Stars, etc. As if they are better but the truth is they are the same. As more my town. The police force is mostly hispanic (which breaks one sterotype) and for the most part they are pretty nice people. And this is one of the ten largest cities in Amrerica.
The Seattle protest are funny if you sit down and think about it. All the leftist force mobalized to protest Globalization. But look at leftist doctrine.. Worker of the World Unite? Isn't that Globalization. Hmm.. If globalization is a left wing goal and isolation is a rightist goal. Then the leftist protests were only helping the rightist. Sounds like the hippies got the short end of the stick next time.
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Germany and the rest of the EU don't have a crime problem because where they don't have as many petty crime law, they do have strict enforcement of laws. I'm just saying the way Americans think. The people of this country decided that we should have anti-drug, and anti-alchohol, etc. etc. and so we do. We also decided to not let officers carry sub-machine guns unholstered and to have futher limitations on our police, including accountability of actions if the public disapproves. I remember in Italy the cops did what they wanted to and no questioned what they did. I had a friend who was sexual harrassed by a cop in Italy and there was nothing she could do. In America, you call the press, call a lawyer, file a complaint, and you can get a settlement or the cop suspened.
We should just send the AFL-CIO in after the Corporations. Ha!
True the Drug War is a mistake... but that only effects a very small part of the population. Ghettos mainly. Stalin didn't have so many in prision because he just killed them. Also the KGB kept the people in line so they were afraid to break the law. Alchohol prohbition was proposed by Women's Sufferage advocates. And it was a direct result of giving the women the right to vote. The majority wanted it. Our Drug policies are not as harsh as most countries. That quote about the prison industry has been circling around since Euguene Debs said it back near the turn of the century. I almost garruntee that the tech-sector beat it out until the Nasdaq adjustment. But I do agree legalize the softer stuff and tax it to hell.
Cyberpunk is a high-tech outside the laws group. It is hackers, illegal-cybernetics, and the whole sha-bang of charecter types from Gibson et al books
Read Locke's Treastise on Gov't sometime. We give up freedom for the common good. Your definition of freedom is anarchy. Should I be free to drive drunk? Should I be free to shoot someone? Should I be free to rape someone? No, No, No. True sometimes the government goes to far (damn liberals) and puts laws on private choices. But its also true drinking and smoking age limits were put into place because the majority of Americans wanted them. You have to remember thanks to politics the US Gov't doesn't do shit unless most people agree...why? Because they all want to be re-elected.
You know what I would like to see the percent of Cops that break the law... I have a feeling that number would be the same as the number of citizens that break the law. Wouldn't that be funny. See the thing is Guy sodomizes co-worker and is caught. Zero publicity. Cop sodomizes prisioner. The media goes nuts. We always treat Cops, Politicians, Movie Stars, etc. As if they are better but the truth is they are the same. As more my town. The police force is mostly hispanic (which breaks one sterotype) and for the most part they are pretty nice people. And this is one of the ten largest cities in Amrerica.
The Seattle protest are funny if you sit down and think about it. All the leftist force mobalized to protest Globalization. But look at leftist doctrine.. Worker of the World Unite? Isn't that Globalization. Hmm.. If globalization is a left wing goal and isolation is a rightist goal. Then the leftist protests were only helping the rightist. Sounds like the hippies got the short end of the stick next time.
The Soviet space program actively supported copulations between male and female cosmonauts for research purposes.