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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:13:26 GMT
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Scott:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
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.

  True enough--I was just trying to illustrate that State College isn't
typically some crazy town of hoodlums (or is that hoodla?).

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.

  Some were, because they were caught on video.  I don't know what the final
count was, but sadly it wasn't much more than a handful of participants.

  Dave!



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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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