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To: KLP who wrote (246512)4/19/2008 10:53:30 PM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (2) of 793843
 
I just got a post from LB and the two of you frame this issue well. He makes the point that it's a big country with functioning religious communities living outside the mainstream with little to no interaction with the rest of us. You on the other hand see these communities as a threat to the uniform code that most of us live by.

I am inclined to be cautious of the slippery slope of looking the other way and have to ask myself where and when do we draw the line. Unconventional marriage customs, religious drug use, stoning sinners, honor killings, animal sacrifice, and whatever else a pious adherent believes that is outside our legal system and civil rights undermines both.

The quandary though is how do you deal with a large number of people who have enacted an alternate society with alternate laws? Aspects of tactics employed in Texas make me cringe, yet I am equally afraid of the erosion of national standards.

Sadly, I don't think there is an easy or pleasant solution to this dilemma and often law enforcement is neither easy nor pleasant.

One thing though is true. People that operate outside our laws are still protected by the civil rights that protect us all and tragedies such as what happened in Waco are unacceptable. Though difficult the burden will forever remain on our government to be humane and we can expect nothing less in America.

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