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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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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:
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> > 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.
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> 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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