a) She is 21 now. She would have been about six at the time. My son is about to turn three, that could be the confussion there.

b) That's rediculous. If a person believes corporal punishment is inappropriate for their child that is fine. It is a judgment call that a parent has to make. Unfortunately we have a current social situation where if the police don't make some response the public will hold them accountable when something terrible happens later. For example, let's say the cop responds to the call and decides not to take action and the guy later beats his kid to death. The media and public will unfairly rip the police to shreds because they "failed" to take action on a previous incident. Same reason 99% of the time someone is going to jail on a domestic disturbance call.

c) She was tired and didn't want to go in the store. I rememberred being able to do the same thing when I was a kid. The parking lot was crowded and I judged her to be safe, which she was. I just didn't consider the busy body factor. Never made that "mistake" again.

Somehow I just assumed all older people were 'wise'.

As you are not someone I would call 'wise', I did not think you could be old enough to have a 21 year old daughter.

OH snap?

On the other hand, you're a god damned yogi compared to Kirbs.

I am wise. I just allowed certain people here to grate on me in a way and I started to post in a trite manner. Most people here agree with me or can at least consider my position when I post in a manner more consistent with my personallity. All anyone has to do is search for all threads that I've started here and read how I used to post prior to accepting the fact that there is little personal benefit to trying to use persuasive arguments to get your point across especially when I am in the minority with regards to my political and philosophical opinions.

See, Wookie just acts retarded, while I actually am retarded. It's a good thing we cleared that up, or JM wouldn't know who to be wiser than.

You're all retarded.

I'm not wise.

Of course, they say wisdom is knowing you aren't wise. So knowing I'm not wise means I am wise. Which makes me a liar.

Or a douche.

I was going to say something but The New Guy is on and they just hazed a midget. Somehow I got distracted.

This is why each Applebees should have a branch shotgun.

Who robs an Applebees in the first place?

Same people who rob any restaurant, desperately hungry criminals.

You never watched Pulp Fiction?

Alright. Now that my Con Law final is done and I have ****-all to worry about until I get my first-semester grades, I'll weigh in in a serious manner.

First of all, Free, police have no authority to determine what laws they will enforce, and they shouldn't. The police are obligated to enforce the laws as written, and there is no reason that we should expect them to do anything else. With a very few (mostly irrelevant) exceptions, police are not lawyers, they are not judges, they are not policymakers and they are not political philosophers. The police are neither qualified nor expected to weigh considerations of justice and fairness when making arrests. The criminal justice system needs people who will simply enforce the laws as written, without subjecting that enforcement to some individualized opinion on whether their jurisdiction's view of justice comports with what's actually just. Disagreements about actual justice are best left to prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, juries and sentencing boards. In any case, there are plenty of actors in the criminal justice system that can ensure a just outcome. Law enforcement agents simply don't have that responsibility.

That said, criminal prosecutions on drug possession or related offenses are absolute bull****. Regardless of whether the Applebees holdup could have been prevented, enforcement of drug-related offenses is a terrible waste of manpower and I've no doubt that more serious crimes could have been prevented if not for what seems to be a national fixation on illegal drugs.

It was the gun, not the drugs that brought all the extra police attention.

That's definitely the case. But the gun wouldn't have been an issue if not for the drug laws.

Also true and I absolutely agree that the drug laws in the US are a farce.

War on Drugs!

People don't know that Wookie is a grownup?

Let's just say this then.

I blame cops for enforcing marijuana laws.

And I wouldn't enforce them if I was a cop.

That's all. No they ought tos about it.

I wish I had that old yoshi pic that read...

"Your opinion is wrong..."

Impossible, troll.

I think this thread is the longest I have ever started! whoohoo!

And it's even cooler because you consider the OP off topic!

wtf is OP

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A bulls*** war created to distract us from another bulls*** war that happened to be going on at the same time.

How can there be a war on drugs, they don't fight back