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Why Not Just Make Everything a Crime?

"Are we, as a society, losing our ability to distinguish between what we don't like and what ought to be criminal?  Every day, we see some glorious scheme being proposed to make us all safer, healthier, or wealthier, or to give us whiter teeth. To evaluate whether violating that law ought to be a crime, we need to ask: 'Are you really willing to shoot someone over that?' 

"Before you say, 'We're not going to be shooting anyone for smoking in public/not wearing a seatbelt/not wearing a helmet/not hiring the proper demographic in his office; we're only talking about a $50/$100/$250 fine!' think: 'What if they won't pay their fine?' The response, 'Then they'll have to appear in court, and the court will make them pay.' The reply, 'But what if they still refuse to comply with the court order?' 'Then they'll be thrown in jail.'

"Even further, what if they refuse to allow the police in their home, or
refuse to pull over their car when the officers try to arrest them? What if they are so tired of being nitpicked to death by nanny-statism that they just snap and refuse to be taken alive?  Oops.  At some point, somewhere along the way, if something is made a crime, someone may have to shoot somebody to enforce the law."

- California state Sen. Ray Haynes, 5/14/01

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Hate Crimes Me But Not For Thee

"Outside the Internet, the shocking multiple murders in Wichita, Kan.,
haven't received much national attention, and Wichita authorities want to keep it that way.  Since Jonathan and Reginald Carr were accused of murdering five people in December, the case has been hit with a gag order preventing prosecutors and lawyers from discussing details with the public. ... The Carr case became a cause celebre on some Internet sites - and touched off a debate over race and crime - after Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston refused to classify the murders as hate crimes.  The Carrs are black, while each of the five victims was white.

" ... On December 14, the Carrs reportedly broke into the home of three men in their 20s and their two female guests.  Prosecutors say the Carrs raped the two women and forced the four friends to have sex with each other, then took them one by one to an automated teller machine and forced them to withdraw money.  Later than night, prosecutors say, the Carrs drove their victims to a deserted soccer field, forced them to kneel in the snow and shot them each in the back of the head.  The attackers then drove their truck over the bodies."

- Valerie Richardson, Washington Times Weekly, 5/20/01

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I May Not Agree With What You Say...

"(T)he St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that a federal judge has ordered Woodbury High School to allow 16-year-old Elliott Chambers to wear his 'Straight Pride' shirt to school. In a preliminary injunction, Judge Donovan Frank said there's a 'strong likelihood' the ban on the shirt violates Elliott's free-speech rights. As we said last month, we don't approve of the shirt; it seems to us it's in poor taste to go around advertising one's sexual orientation.  But we sympathize with Elliott's desire to protest his school's proselytizing on behalf of the gay-rights cause."

- Best of the Web, 5/21/01

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The Proper Role of Government

"The national media and politicians from both parties have irresponsibly characterized the situation as an energy 'crisis,' thereby generating public support for further unconstitutional and unwise federal intervention in energy markets. ... Never mind that California caused its own problems by restricting supply and freezing energy prices while the population skyrocketed. The real danger is that the federal government may repeat California's mistakes on a national level, subjecting the rest of the nation to similar shortages. The true crisis facing us is not a physical shortage of energy, but rather the looming threat that socialist economic planning will replace market mechanisms and cause unnecessary shortages.

" ... Free markets work. Government, not markets or deregulation, causes the economic woes we face today. Free markets insure that supply and demand are evenly matched, preventing shortages. Contrary to the claims of environmentalists, free markets always promote conservation by increasing the price of precious resources as they become scarcer.  Advocates of socialist central planning in Washington may claim to have the solutions to energy shortages, but in truth market forces cannot be ignored any more than the laws of physics. Americans who want to continue to enjoy uninterrupted energy supplies should oppose any federal regulation of energy markets."

- Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), 5/21/01

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Political Correctness Just Keeps Getting Stupider & Stupider

"Speaking of rare species, the Houston Chronicle reports that the the
Committee on Names of Fishes--a seven-member joint committee of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the American Fisheries Society--has recommended changing the name of Ephinephelus itajara, commonly known as the  jewfish, because that name might be offensive. The committee suggests calling the fish the Goliath grouper. 'So,' writes the Chronicle's Shannon Tompkins, 'the AFS is renaming the jewfish by giving it the name of a
Jew-killing Philistine.'"

- Best of the Web, 5/21/01

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Schools Aren't Broke; They're Broken

"Unlike the XFL, which just went belly-up because it offered an inferior product, public agencies such as school districts merely shake down taxpayers for more money."

- Columnist Ken Ward, Las Vegas Review Journal, 5/20/01

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GOP Congress, Yes ... Conservative Congress, No

"What kind of investor keeps pouring money into a product that grows shabbier by the year? ... Vouchers are really the only way to get rid of poorly producing schools, but George Bush needs a better Congress than this one to do it.  Five of his own Republicans voted with 22 Democrats on the House Education and the Workforce Committee to eliminate vouchers, and that was margin enough to sink vouchers."

- Columnist Suzanne Fields

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