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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (11401)	10/27/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Peter, the only reason banks have security guards is that they know there are not enough police to do that function. Their position in some entitlement claim against a local police force falls under the "best efforts" measurement for performance by those entities, and there are legal precedents which deny a bank or almost all merchants, for that matter, redress unless gross negligence or willful disregard for the lives, safety or property of the establishment can be proven. In the situation you refer to, the "round-the-clock" protection of abortion clinics, I think the political rhetoric being used has an intention - scare the perpetrator into backing off. Although I object to abortion per se, the present law of the land allows it; Using enormous amounts of police resources to "protect" the clinics is problematic, but not unprecedented. Until the perpetrators of these crimes are captured, I think the prevailing thought among public safety officials is that there are nuts out there who we need to make it very difficult for to play the terrorist game. I don't subscribe to the "that's the risk they take" philosophy. Terrorism, even of people who engage in something as personally repugnant to me as abortion, is shamelessly barbaric. Mr. K.