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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Indeed. And maybe we should think of ourselves more as co-defendants rather than prosecutors. Few of us who live on a street with single family homes want a 5 story apartment building built nextdoor to us.
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Life is short. Play with your dog.
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch
quote:Originally posted by QuirtEvans:quote:Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Indeed. And maybe we should think of ourselves more as co-defendants rather than prosecutors. Few of us who live on a street with single family homes want a 5 story apartment building built nextdoor to us.
It isn't just next door. The town I lived in in Massachusetts had excellent schools but sky-high property taxes, because it was more committed to higher density housing available to those with lower incomes than many surrounding towns. And those families had kids, and those kids went to the schools ...
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.
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Life is short. Play with your dog.