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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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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
Scott: (...) restrictions (...) True enough--I was just trying to illustrate that State College isn't typically some crazy town of hoodlums (or is that hoodla?). (...) Some were, because they were caught on video. I don't know what the final count (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
(...) My point was that I agree absolutely that it is foolish to contribute to charity without some sense of where one's money will wind up but I don't feel I can trust a corporation or a single wealthy individual to fund an educational system (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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