Elitism

[Butcher]

Respect should be earned, but in some cases it comes with a position of authority.
Common courtesy is deserved until proven otherwise

What more needs to be said?

[tunnelrat]

What more needs to be said?

Something about breasts and alcoholic beverages, vehicles which travel at high speed, and a place to take a dump with a door on it...

I think that about covers it...

[zack1234]

 

[hlbly]

Something about breasts and alcoholic beverages, vehicles which travel at high speed, and a place to take a dump with a door on it...

I think that about covers it...

Never heard of a place to dump with doors you city slickers has funny ways .

[tunnelrat]

Never heard of a place to dump with doors you city slickers has funny ways .

It's everything you hope it will be, my friend.

YOUR DAY WILL COME!

[Plawranc]

Its really a case of understanding the difference between

"Official Respect"

and "Personal Respect".

That said both have to be mutual unless, as members of this board have already said a million and one times, you are given a reason not to respect that authority or person.

[DrBone1]

I agree with Plawranc.

All others are wrong.

 

[W7LPNRICK]

I agree with Plawranc.

All others are wrong.

 

But your name is "Bone" which could be added to "Head"...

[tunnelrat]

But your name is "Bone" which could be added to "Head"...

That's DOCTOR BoneHEAD to you, sirah.

[Plawranc]

The USA was founded on the principle that everyone is entitled to say and think what they wish.

Its amazing how many of its people seem to have forgotten this principle.

[MarineUS]

The USA was founded on the principle that everyone is entitled to say and think what they wish.

Its amazing how many of its people seem to have forgotten this principle.

http://news.yahoo.com/mass-town-oks-20-fines-swearing-public-033025166.html

Mass. town OKs $20 fines for swearing in public

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Residents in Middleborough voted Monday night to make the foul-mouthed pay fines for swearing in public.

At a town meeting, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.

Officials insist the proposal was not intended to censor casual or private conversations, but instead to crack down on loud, profanity-laden language used by teens and other young people in the downtown area and public parks.

I'm really happy about it," Mimi Duphily, a store owner and former town selectwoman, said after the vote. "I'm sure there's going to be some fallout, but I think what we did was necessary."

Duphily, who runs an auto parts store, is among the downtown merchants who wanted take a stand against the kind of swearing that can make customers uncomfortable.

"They'll sit on the bench and yell back and forth to each other with the foulest language. It's just so inappropriate," she said.

The measure could raise questions about First Amendment rights, but state law does allow towns to enforce local laws that give police the power to arrest anyone who "addresses another person with profane or obscene language" in a public place.

Matthew Segal, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot prohibit public speech just because it contains profanity.

The ordinance gives police discretion over whether to ticket someone if they believe the cursing ban has been violated.

[Related: Many teen books feature R-rated language]

Middleborough, a town of about 20,000 residents perhaps best known for its rich cranberry bogs, has had a bylaw against public profanity since 1968. But because that bylaw essentially makes cursing a crime, it has rarely if ever been enforced, officials said, because it simply would not merit the time and expense to pursue a case through the courts.

The ordinance would decriminalize public profanity, allowing police to write tickets as they would for a traffic violation. It would also decriminalize certain types of disorderly conduct, public drinking and marijuana use, and dumping snow on a roadway.

Segal praised Middleborough for reconsidering its bylaw against public profanity, but said fining people for it isn't much better.

"Police officers who never enforced the bylaw might be tempted to issue these fines, and people might end up getting fined for constitutionally protected speech," he said.

Another local merchant, Robert Saquet, described himself as "ambivalent" about the no-swearing proposal, likening it to try to enforce a ban on the seven dirty words of George Carlin, a nod to a famous sketch by the late comedian.

"In view of words commonly used in movies and cable TV, it's kind of hard to define exactly what is obscene," said Paquet, who owns a downtown furniture store.

But Duphily said, "I don't care what you do in private. It's in public what bothers me."

[Oldman731]

Mass. town OKs $20 fines for swearing in public

We'll see how long that lasts.

- oldman

[Plawranc]

If you did that in Australia... There would be more revenue in fines than in taxes.

[DrBone1]

http://news.yahoo.com/mass-town-oks-20-fines-swearing-public-033025166.html

Mass. town OKs $20 fines for swearing in public

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Residents in Middleborough voted Monday night to make the foul-mouthed pay fines for swearing in public.

At a town meeting, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.

Officials insist the proposal was not intended to censor casual or private conversations, but instead to crack down on loud, profanity-laden language used by teens and other young people in the downtown area and public parks.

I'm really happy about it," Mimi Duphily, a store owner and former town selectwoman, said after the vote. "I'm sure there's going to be some fallout, but I think what we did was necessary."

Duphily, who runs an auto parts store, is among the downtown merchants who wanted take a stand against the kind of swearing that can make customers uncomfortable.

"They'll sit on the bench and yell back and forth to each other with the foulest language. It's just so inappropriate," she said.

The measure could raise questions about First Amendment rights, but state law does allow towns to enforce local laws that give police the power to arrest anyone who "addresses another person with profane or obscene language" in a public place.

Matthew Segal, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot prohibit public speech just because it contains profanity.

The ordinance gives police discretion over whether to ticket someone if they believe the cursing ban has been violated.

[Related: Many teen books feature R-rated language]

Middleborough, a town of about 20,000 residents perhaps best known for its rich cranberry bogs, has had a bylaw against public profanity since 1968. But because that bylaw essentially makes cursing a crime, it has rarely if ever been enforced, officials said, because it simply would not merit the time and expense to pursue a case through the courts.

The ordinance would decriminalize public profanity, allowing police to write tickets as they would for a traffic violation. It would also decriminalize certain types of disorderly conduct, public drinking and marijuana use, and dumping snow on a roadway.

Segal praised Middleborough for reconsidering its bylaw against public profanity, but said fining people for it isn't much better.

"Police officers who never enforced the bylaw might be tempted to issue these fines, and people might end up getting fined for constitutionally protected speech," he said.

Another local merchant, Robert Saquet, described himself as "ambivalent" about the no-swearing proposal, likening it to try to enforce a ban on the seven dirty words of George Carlin, a nod to a famous sketch by the late comedian.

"In view of words commonly used in movies and cable TV, it's kind of hard to define exactly what is obscene," said Paquet, who owns a downtown furniture store.

But Duphily said, "I don't care what you do in private. It's in public what bothers me."

Is this suppose to be your point of the arguement?  Because its lacking very bad.

[JimmyC]

Fluck me.....