| ??? 07/27/08 06:26 Read: times Msg Score: +3 +3 Good Answer/Helpful |
#157079 - Not normal Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Completely off-topic, but I feel compelled to reply to some nonsense.
Richard Erlacher said:
Yes, but "criminal" is looked upon differently in different places. How else can you explain the completely relaxed posture of one of the hundreds of thousands of illegal Latin "immigrants" that we have here in the Denver area, standing in front of a bus stop and urinating into the gutter in full view of police, and other passers-by? I lived in Mexico for a decade. Urinating on the street is not acceptable there, either. It sounds to me like you witnessed someone who was drunk, drugged, or just a reckless low-life. We have those in the U.S., too. Clearly, in Mexico, where there's no legally imposed death penalty, and the maximal prison sentence is 20 years, they view mass-murder with different eyes than we, here in the U.S. Mass murder is still illegal, though. It's simply a question of punishment. And the maximum sentence in Mexico isn't 20 years. It's 40. There are probably better examples, but, having recent recollection of one case wherein a law-enforcement officer was murdered by an illegal "immigrant" (using the term loosely) because he'd been offended by being excluded from a family celebration, I can't help but think of the obvious cultural difference that allows this sort of thing. I'd like to know where in the world it's considered acceptable to kill an officer, let alone for something as absurd as what you cited. You're simply pointing to some foreigners breaking the law--and guess what? Americans break the law too. Just because you witness foreigners do it doesn't mean that those acts are considered acceptable in the countries from which they came. Regards, Craig Steiner |
