🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:10:16 -0400, Mr Ed <Ed@w3source.net> wrote:

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>Paul Morgan wrote:
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>> I think you should find out just what the police are out there for,
>> then come back.
>> If fishnet tactics is what it takes to get impaired drivers off the
>> road, then I'm all for it. These are the ones that force the results
>> we have now. Jesus, it isn't brain surgery, once the idiots that break
>> the law are off the streets, then the check-stops go away.
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>In that case they'll -never- go away. But what will you say Paul, when at
>some point one of those dragnet-style roadblocks stops you, and you and
>your vehicle are searched, and while alcohol, drugs, or illegal weapons are
>not found, the police note that you have books and papers which advocate a
>political position (doesn't matter which one) that is out-of-favour with
>the government (either provincial or federal), so at the very least they
>make a record of that and flag you for 'further investigation' at some
>future time, or at the worst they cart you downtown while they notify CSIS
>that they just might have a terrorist suspect for them to interrogate.
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Depends on the books and papers. Do they spread the word that it is
time for another Hitler to come to power? Do they advocate the
overfall of the elected government by violence? 
In spite of what you think and what the voices are telling others, the
roadblocks will only get impaired drivers off the road. When your son
or daughter is killed by one you will think this is a good thing.

>Of course you'll say it's far fetched, until it happens to you, but that is
>where these 'roadblocks' will ultimately lead, whether you wish to believe
>it or not.
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>Mr. Ed
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>"The FAMOUS Mr. Ed"
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Do you not think that the stand you are taking here on the ng has not
been noted and documented by the authorities??