Doug... are you trying to tell us that you're a child molster that just needs
to be accepted?
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, It's just a ride <bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: It's just a ride <bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Lincoln
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 6:04 PM
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:09 AM, dhamiltony2k5 <dhamiltony2k5@ yahoo.com> wrote:
"there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing
disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to
substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of
Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice.
This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in
ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of
truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny."
- Abe Lincoln
Most rewarding is a study of American history and the history of American
politics. One sees that booms and busts have been part of the American scene.
That immorality, illegality, lack of respect for law and order. All of these
have been here. Witch hunts. If it wasn't religion, it was race. If it
wasn't race it was demon rum or vile slavery. It was the Italian immigrants,
the German immigrants, the Irish immigrants. Today its smoking and sex
offenders. Sex offenders are retried (and convicted) for the same and single
crime over and over again, even if the crime was merely to relieve onself off a
bit too much urine in a place that was less than opportune. These individuals
are continuously hunted down. Banned from social sites, ban from towns, having
to announce their presence wherever they go. All of the laws surrounding sex
offenders and their new limitations are passed after the person has been tried,
convicted and service
his/her time.
It never ends. It's just the same old, same old, based on different issues,
different circumstances.
