05-18-2006, 07:59 AM
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pixie of the wood
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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those kinds of ordinances are not uncommon anywhere in the US, left overs from the days of puritans, quakers, and calvinists, i suspect - some of whom had a big hand in forming this country, but they are rarely enforced in modern times. if they are it's usually against a party house, known drug house, or something equally disruptive to the safety of the community, not against a family.
it is truly disturbing that they would do this but it sounds like maybe the mayor is alone on this issue, i hope so anyway. i don't think the special council will follow through. but it's a mighty scary allegory that reflects much of what is going on in the fight between the "neo-cons" at one extreme, and the "radical left" at the other. the rest of us - the majority of us - are caught in the middle.
please excuse the diatribe, but i fear a lot of people don't realize how close this country is to being turned into a "democratic theocracy". the backlash against the attempt is just as bad. and like i said, the majority of us - the sane, the tolerant, the hardworking, the accepting, the progressive, the ones who don't have some agenda or vendetta against the other - we're being railroaded into a government, on both sides, that doesn't even represent its people's values anymore. it's like watching two kids fight over a stuffed animal and at the end all they're left with is clumps of stuffing.
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