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"Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".

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"Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 4, 2015 at 12:07 am
Well...not sure I would expect anything less from Oklahoma. The whole center of the US could be called "dumbfuckastan".
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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 4, 2015 at 12:11 am
What conservatives have always meant by small government is less consumer protection, welfare, affirmative action, or regulation of big business. More criminal laws and larger prisons they are for provided that the ownership of guns isn't included in the mix. And larger military build up somehow isn't part of the government.
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#13
RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 4, 2015 at 12:39 am
They are Jenny, in short, full of shit.
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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 4, 2015 at 12:39 am
I've no way to prove this (why should be obvious) but given the large number
of laws, regulatory agency policies and rules currently extant, isn't everybody
infringing on some law at all times?
It was a dark joke at the airport that any time an FAA inspector wanted to
ground an aircraft he could and for valid cause. With enough rules, some of which
contradict others, some of which (obstruction, disorderly conduct) are open to
interpretation, it's impossible to obey them all.

It leads to selective enforcement being necessary and gives more power to the officer doing the enforcing. More power to do wrong generally leads to more wrong being done.
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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 4, 2015 at 12:22 pm
How the fuck did an anti-KKK law get passed in Oklahoma 100 years ago ?

(no offense to current Oklahomatarians)
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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 4, 2015 at 2:06 pm
(January 4, 2015 at 12:22 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: How the fuck did an anti-KKK law get passed in Oklahoma 100 years ago ?

(no offense to current Oklahomatarians)

This is just a guess but probably there was significant Catholic immigration to Oklahoma. 100 years ago the Klan hated Catholics because of Irish immigration. This is partly why they became unpopular even when the US (and rest of the world) was full of racists.
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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 19, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Even ministers in Oklahoma know how stupid this bill is.

On “Hoodie Sunday,” Tulsa Ministers Took a Stand for Free Speech and Against Racism
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: "Hoodies should be illegal", sez party of "small government".
January 19, 2015 at 12:42 pm
(January 4, 2015 at 12:11 am)Jenny A Wrote: What conservatives have always meant by small government is
-more power concentrated in fewer hands, particularly their own.
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