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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:01:10 GMT
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Dave Schuler wrote:
> By the way, the Penn State "riot" resulted from a bunch of people in a
> fairly conservative Pennsylvania town deciding it would be fun to destroy
> property, light fires in the street, and generally cause as much chaos as
> possible for no other reason than because it was late at night. It wasn't
> because of a corrupt police force, or because they were too many restrictions
> of freedom. These weren't bad people, and they weren't all students, so
> simple student rowdiness can't have been the cause. In retrospect, having
> been there, it was just a bunch of people, who otherwise might have been
> responsible and upstanding, acting like idiots when they had the chance.
I don't want to go out on a limb, but just because it happened in a
fairly conservative town doesn't mean idiots, rioters, evil and corrupt
people won't do things. I know a few conservative people that I can't
stand sometimes. Doing these things make people bad in my book. I hope
they were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Scott S.
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