(September 17, 2010 at 8:14 am)Tiberius Wrote: Do you honestly believe that passing a law that bans burkas will prevent criminals from using them? Honestly?
Right, but burkas are also used as clothing too. In fact (repeating myself...yay!) *most* muslim women *want* to wear the burka. It isn't oppressive if you are doing it to yourself. It is oppressive if someone else is forcing you to do it.
...and I fully agree with you. This is why I am against any item of clothing being banned, and why I think people should be allowed to cover their faces in public. Instead of rallying for the banning of clothing, we should be rallying for the right of *everyone* to cover up; same with laws regarding marriage. I don't see what business the state has in marriage; nor do I see what business the state has in what we wear. As long as nobody is infringing on another person's civil rights, there shouldn't be any government action taken.
Again, these aren't religious rights; they should be the rights of everyone. You are again ignoring my main point; which is that criminals don't give two fucks about the law. No law is going to prevent a criminal from using a burka to hide their appearance.
Think about it for a minute. Criminals don't want to get caught, and the best way of getting caught is to cover up your face so you can't be identified easily. If a law is passed that bans such an act, will a criminal think "Oh...I'd better not cover up my face whilst I rob this bank, now it's illegal to do so."? No. The criminal operates under the belief that they are going to get away, and anything that helps that belief become a reality will be used by them, whether that involves having a get-away car, using an illegal firearm, or covering up their face.
Laws won't change that. Laws only work on the people who are willing to obey them. Criminals don't come under that category.
The problem is not robbing during, but the after where they avoid the police by use this clothing to lose the police, and criminals have done this sucessfully, because the police can't remove that clothing, and i don't aggree with the part of covering your face should be legal.
