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Article #2143Re: Cats in trees
From: Thomas D. Horne
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:38
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:38
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Robert Kennedy <robert@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Wrote: Name calling and other negativity snipped. >> ... The fire and rescue >> service and the animal control service exist for one reason only >> and that is to protect human beings from injury or disease. > > > That's actually false. I'm sort of appalled that you say you're a > firefighter and you would make such a claim. > > How is it false? The legal authority for the operation of fire services is the police power of the state. The legal justification of medical rescue services derives from the corporate nature of local governments. The common law duty of the public fire service is to protect you from a fire in your neighbors home. The state has no obligation to protect you from a fire in your own home. The legal axiom is that "a duty to all is a duty to none." Absent the common law and statutory police power local governments could not exercise authority over privately owned animals. The legal justification for the operation of animal control services is to protect you from harm that could arise out of contact with a diseased or otherwise dangerous animal. Absent a hazard or corporate benefit to citizens the local government would not have a legal power to act. -- Tom
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1012ff,3c2385560efb32e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1012ff,public X-Google-Thread: 101376,3c2385560efb32e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid101376,public X-Google-Thread: 1070c7,3c2385560efb32e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070c7,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-26 12:37:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: "Thomas D. Horne" <hornetd@handspring.com> Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services,alt.firefighters,ba.mountain-folk Subject: Re: Cats in trees Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:38:27 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3C5313C3.8080506@handspring.com> References: <3C4A18BC.6303C99F@aol.com> <3C4A52C0.DE4789BA@webvenues.net> <31ec7e6d.0201211604.690c8b76@posting.google.com> <3C4CC078.2030501@mindspring.com> <a2kqtj$l2a$1@usenet.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: MindShouldReplaceHand NNTP-Posting-Host: 42.20.44.44 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 26 Jan 2002 20:36:30 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us To: Robert Kennedy <robert@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>