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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (5347)	2/9/2001 8:21:52 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That's what investigations are for. There is usually, within my knowledge, a history of behavior, talk, and associations that would lead to the conclusion that it was not an act against an individual, as much as it was an act against a group, using the individual as an example. One thing I can say is that no one who has been in fear of their physical safety from strangers, or neighbors, because of what they are would need to ask the questions you do. They've lived it. There are places, and times, when it has not been okay to beat your neighbor up, if they were like you, but you could beat a gay and not be prosecuted. You could beat a black and not be prosecuted. Maybe it takes a counter-measure to enforce that it is no longer okay. Where there was once no justice, there is now justice for the group, not only the individual. Maybe I think it is my "right" to walk without fear of being beaten because a bunch of kids have come with baseball bats looking for someone like me to bash. Maybe I'd like society to say that I have that "right". And maybe that will lead to us having the "right" to walk in safety. Heck, my granny used to be scared to death of my walking our country road after dark because of "men" who would hurt a woman. I'll walk in the dark. As we all should. but ask any woman, at least any over 40, and ask if they weren't warned about not going out at night, and not going to places that men thought nothing of going to. To fear a certain neighborhood is a particular fear. To fear the dark takes away a very large chunk of your life. And I've gone way on a tangent.