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TheKentuckian

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3. I don't understand how this practice is even remotely acceptable
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 11:49 AM
Jul 2012

Nor do I really grasp how we fell so low to be relegated tracking for patterns of abuse instead of just shutting this kind of shut down with extreme prejudice as an abuse in and of it's self.

We are becoming a nation of cowardly, unprincipled fucks that want some "Daddy" to keep us "safe" at any cost. Quotes used because intellectually even the dull understand there is no magic field the encompasses us and that the more open the society is the more risk is assumed because due diligence can only expect to minimize not eliminate risk. Acceptance can only indicate cowering into the false exchange of "safety" for freedom.

This should have been put to a stop with the "Terry Stops" at the latest. Certainly by the time they started in with all the roadblocks.

Its all "reasonable" now. The reasoning of a precocious three year old determined to get their way.

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