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Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Brandie: [quote]Where are you getting this idea? There's so much wrong with that statement I wouldn't even know where to begin. I mean, it's one thing to find the law to be unjust, but to advocate that a sheriff can and should do whatever he wants and "play by his rules" with his prisoners...Wow.[/quote] I agree with you here, no sheriff has the right to do anything he wants to the people in his jail. However, no judge has the right to create rights out of thin air either. Un

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]I think you are deliberately being obtuse. There is a medical need to have an abortion when the mother chooses to terminate the pregnancy.[/quote] No, I'm speaking in medical terms, unlike you who just seems to throw around words to try to make a point that can't be made. Abortion is considered an elective procedure by the medical profession. There are abortions that are considered medically necessary, but this woman's situation isn't one of those. Please learn the d

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Yes, they do. That is the whole reason they are in existence.[/quote] That's the reason Roger Baldwin started it, but he wouldn't recognize the ACLU of today. As often happens, what started out as a good organization, ends up being co-opted by powermongers with their own agenda. Baldwin's ACLU was against communism and all other forms of totalitarianism. The modern ACLU embraces all forms of totalitarianism but refuses to defend freedom for anyone else. They d

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Boudica: [quote]I don't equate a medical procedure with a protest march. [/quote] Your argument is that, since she has a right to an abortion, and paid for it, then the sherrif is violating her rights by not providing transportation. She also has the right to protest, so if your argument were legitimate, then both rights should be respected equally. [quote]Are you serious?!? If a woman chooses to terminate her pregnancy, yes there is a medical need for it and certainly withi

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]ACk! I think my head just exploded. Reproductive rights are not a privilege. I am so glad that we have an organization like the ACLU to defend our constiutional rights.[/quote] Slave ownwers had the right to whip their property too, but that didn't make it right.

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Actually, the prisoner had already paid for the procedure. The sheriff would not transport her. I don't think that a prisoner can walk out the door and catch a taxi to get the procedure done. The violation was in his trying to impose his ideology on these women and deny them their constiutional rights.[/quote] So if the prisoner paid for participation in a protest march, Arpaio should be required to transport them to it? The whole thing about letting people out of jai

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]And calling this "elective" is a way of trying to diminish it like it is something unnecessary, a frivolous cosmetic procedure, a nose job. It is a much more than that. The month long delay made this a more difficult procedure that required a two day hospital stay. This is not some tooth whitening procedure that can wait until the prisoner serves their sentence.[/quote] No, calling it Elective is being honest. Words mean things and elective treatment is a medical term. She CHOSE

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Actually, the prisoner had already paid for the procedure. The sheriff would not transport her. I don't think that a prisoner can walk out the door and catch a taxi to get the procedure done. The violation was in his trying to impose his ideology on these women and deny them their constiutional rights.[/quote] The sheriff has every right to refuse to allow an inmate to travel outside the jail. Again, the inmate has no inherent right to elective medical care, nor does the jail

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Boudica: [quote]ACk! I think my head just exploded. Reproductive rights are not a privilege. I am so glad that we have an organization like the ACLU to defend our constiutional rights. “Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution.” – Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Monmouth County Correctional Institute Inmates v. Lanzaro (1987) 2[/quote] That may be true, but no one has the right to elective medical care at the taxpayers' di

Reply to Joe Arpaio's latest ACLU violation in Current Events Stardock Forums

You went off on to some tangents here. You would have made the point better if you had of stuck with the fact that the people of the county Arpaio works for does not owe anyone an abortion. I guess the American Criminal Leninists Union is all about "Commit a felony, win an abortion".

Reply to Worst. Vegetarian. Ever. in Wildlife JoeUser Forums

That puts you up there with all us motorcycle riders. :~D

Reply to Take an Inch, take a mile, take a country, take a Continent in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]The problem is religion should be a private thing and never go public and disrupt.[/quote] Sex should be a private thing too, but that doesn't stop people from wanting to make it a public issue.

Reply to Take an Inch, take a mile, take a country, take a Continent in Politics JoeUser Forums

This is the beauty of Freedom of Speech. Let the murdering torturous rapists spout on about their schemes. Let the world hear what kind of scum they are. It is only when we silence such demons that we fall into apathy, believing they are a thing of the past. Let the free world listen... and be warned.

Reply to And they say the US army is inhumane? in Politics Stardock Forums

You have to remember, this is the same incompetent press that was shocked that Prs. Reagan would actually stand up to the Soviet Union. All the incompetent presses' heroes gave in to the Soviets every chance they got.

Reply to Offshore Drilling Is Bogus in Politics JoeUser Forums

Nuke Bus? Supertrains? Ok, how about a VIABLE alternative to domestic flight.

Reply to Worst. Vegetarian. Ever. in Wildlife Stardock Forums

Bug! It's what's for Dinner! :~D

Reply to Define "Combat Vet" or Even Just "Combat" in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

[quote]Parated: My husband lost people he knew. Had to sort through pieces of people he knew. I don't think it's best to assume that everyone who served in Iraq had an easy time.[/quote] When did anything I said even imply that I was assuming that? I was merely pointing out a misconception many people have about service in Iraq. Of course, many of the battalions have lost 60 or 70 of their friends, and others they know well. It kind of suprized me to get this from you, since

Reply to Offshore Drilling Is Bogus in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Finally, we don't need nearly as many planes as we are currently flying, and last time I was there, the whole act of getting a flight is miserable. All we need are basic international routes across the ocean, and that would require MUCH less fuel than the hundreds of commuter lines we're currently running.[/quote] What would you propose as an alternative to domestic flight?

Reply to Define "Combat Vet" or Even Just "Combat" in War on Terror Stardock Forums

This is a question I've wrestled with myself. Being a Desert Storm vet, I was in a war. I was never in a firefight, nor did anyone I knew die there. A few weeks in January, we did have our nightly SCUD alert, but truth be told, if I wasn't the night shift radio operator, I wouldn't have even known about most of them. Of course, when the SCUD alert messae told us it was coming our way, we did get everyone into the bunkers and to MOPP4. 5 of us stayed in the TOC un

Reply to Obama Proposes "National Security Force" in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Mooseplow, I was hoping you would prove to be an intelligent left leaning person who might be fun to lock horns with. I was wrong. You are left leaning, but have the intelligence of a pixie stick. Yes I dismiss you, not because you are left leaning, but because you're a total idiot.

Reply to Obama Proposes "National Security Force" in Democrat JoeUser Forums

[quote]Not to mention who owns the airwaves with talk shows, who owns fox, who owns print material. Not liberals. Sure I guess we got CNN, and to some extent nbc but everything else is advantage conservative[/quote] Once again, tired old rhetoric straight out of the Democrat Underground. I offer you links and facts, you offer tripe that can only be backed up with some variation of "they wouldn't do that!" [quote]Or just become a conservative and then you will...?[/quote]<br/

Reply to Obama Proposes "National Security Force" in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Mooseplow: [quote]Actually you are quite wrong he has been involved in some very serious issues just to name 3 off the top of my head. 1.)Coauthored a bill with a top republican to limit nuclear arms from getting into the wrong hands, and what to do if it does. This bill also provides for helping russia get rid of their nuc stockpile 2.)Coauthored a ethics bill with Lugar that calls for government transparency. This involves setting up a website were you and I can go to see what the go

Reply to Edwards Affair in Democrat Stardock Forums

Just another politician letting the little head do the thinking for the big one. Of course, Edwards big head is so far up his butt the little one is the only one available for comment.

Reply to Choosing the Next President in The Political Machine JoeUser Forums

Mongo: [quote]in my opinion obama is a complete idiot with absolutly no expereance with being a leader his senate record speaks for itself so for me the choice is simple[/quote] This is a good point. Unfortunately McCain's Senate record speaks for itself too. While he was often willing to cross the aisle to help sponsor bills important to the Democrats, he never once co-sponsored a "bipartisan" bill on issues important to Republicans. To my knowledge, he has never stood up against th

Reply to Obama Proposes "National Security Force" in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Mooseplow: [quote]Yet out of the other end we hear he has no record because hes only been in the senate 2 years, you guys cant have it both ways either he doesnt have a record to stand or he does, but dont say both are right.[/quote] That's the point, in 2 years in the Senate he has never once championed a single issue. I don't like Hillary a bit, but at least she has accomplished a few things in her time on the hill. Even if we go back to his days in Illinois State government, t