Posted on 11/02/2011 7:01:11 AM PDT by massmike
I agree, the bartenders are generally minumum wage folks, just trying to make ends meet. It's not always a good time, cleaning up after drunks is unpleasant at best.
What I do appreciate, is having a polite disagreement with you, a nice debate. They are hard to find here - you usually wind up getting called lots of names and personal attacks. You've refrained from that, and I apprecate it.
My greatest fear, is that history will repeat itself - and the witch-hunt that imprisoned innocent adults in the Daycare industry will repeat itself. If I could give a short-cut ride on ol'sparky; it would be for the prosecutor who theatened the children to tell stories (or you won't see Mommy and Daddy ever again); and then had innocent people lose their homes, their savings, years of their lives in jail, and their reputations.
My view is very simple - no evidence, no crime. Unless you can point to a witness, DNA, a confession, sworn affadavits from uninvolved parties - something tangible; I would refuse to convict. That's why I'm a strong proponent of cell phones recording policemen as they do their duty (as well as the police car with a front facing camera). I don't trust anyone; heck I even sit in church with my bible and look up the passages as the Priest/Pastor dishes out his sermon. If he's making up a bible verse to sell a point of view; I have no shame in standing up and pointing out his error. So far, the Clergy have been spot on - but I'm still gonna look those verses up. It would be a 'sin of ommission' to allow a lie to stand, unchallenged.
You should live around here! Not only do they want to hang you if you get fooled by a fake ID,but the cops and some citizen's groups regularly send in underage kids to these places to try and buy! And that's for booze AND CIGARETTES!!!!!(sometimes lottery tickets!)
But if the store or bar catches a kid with a phony ID,the cops usually let them go with a warning or a deal is made with the judge that if Junior behaves for 6 months or so,it'll all be forgotten!
Yeah! It started out a bit heated,but we seem to have found a middle ground!
Or maybe we're just running out of gas! lol
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