Jim, you think you could use this?
Posted on 08/11/2005 11:55:37 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
oops, I mean rdb3.
My non-hispanic-white college roommate and I went grocery shopping once (about 15 yrs ago), and since we would try to each buy half of general supplies but get our own hair spray, cosmetics, etc., we would check out in seperate carts. Repeatedly, my license number and drivers license were run through the "hot check system" keypad thingy upon writing a check, and hers was not. There are still knuckle dragging idiots (even on FR occasionally), but what are you gonna do?
Who has a picture of sprite lightning that we can use for a Bigzot (sprites are a very potent form of lightning, extending up through the ionosphere)?
"If it happened as presented, a fair call. I notice that there was no defense presented in the article"
It's real simple here, Slowboat407. THERE'S NO DEFENSE
POSSIBLE! Understand?
Well, then, they shouldn't expect fire and police protection, since some of them might be "undesirables", IMHO.
Well, then these same private property businesses shouldn't expect public benefit of police, fire, street, or sewer.
That's sad. Imagine allowing someone else to determine your wholeness.
Coming around here like you own the place or something!!!
;-)
So here's to you, Mr. Robinson; Heaven holds a place for you. (is there a song in there somewhere?)
Is there more to this story than is being presented? I hate to think there are still people that ignorant running around loose and not on medication.
True. I think it was Eleanor Roosevelt that said, "No one can diminish your worth as a person unless you let them."
LOL. Jim says "Don't Feed the Animals".
"Yes...freedom of association...private property rights and the basic natural right to be stupid...after all...who else but an idiot would, right off the bat, reduce his potential pool of buyers by deciding he's not going to sell to someone based on some arbitrary characteristic?"
"Well, then these same private property businesses shouldn't expect public benefit of police, fire, street, or sewer."
Or, most importantly of all, they should not expect access to the courts to enforce their contracts. As in, when the family walks out and says "We are not paying for any of this", the company has no recourse to the law. But the family would have access to the police and the law to protect them against efforts at coercive private enforcement.
Take away the government, and you take away the courts. Take away the courts, and contracts become absolutely meaningless, and the whole capitalist economy dries up and blows away - POOF!
I prefer enforcing the law.
They weren't asking "freedom"; they were aksing for their "paidforitdom".
In case you didn't notice, they paid for use of the advertised facilities, then were denied actual use of said facilities. Notice that is no mention of any refunds for or price reductions for not being able to use the facilities for which they had paid.
Would you also agree that it would have been okay to lock them out of their paid rooms, and make them sleep in the halls? To lock them out of the dining room, after they had paid for their meals? Where do you draw the line?
Jim, you think you could use this?
I wonder if it would be considered an "honor" in some twisted way, to be zotted in this manner versus the regular manner?
That's why I don't get the big bucks :-)
Until relatively recently, the law said you had to ride at the back of the bus. When you cede the Government the authority to enforce and impose social values by statute, what happens when those statutes are written that destroy societal fabrics?
"Hate Crime" laws exist that penalize actions rooted in some social attitudes worse than the same actions rooted in mere greed. Suppose some city council defines participation in FR as a "Hate Crime"? Suppose some court decides public bestiality is a "civil right"? Suppose some government bureau decides you must hire a convicted pedophile to meet a diversity quota?
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