Oregon governor proposes Orwellian-style surveillance

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ascan
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07 Jan 2009, 3:58 pm

ascan wrote:
... conspiring to send their kids to a decent school...

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Since when has being a thieving fraudster been a minor offence? Because that is what it effectively amounts to.

Wanting to send your kids to a school where most of the pupils actually speak English, where arguments aren't settled with knives or guns, and where the majority don't parade around in the strange garb of far-off lands is quite reasonable, Kangoogle. Afterall, most of us never asked for our country to be turned into such a wretched mess. To be honest, any government official spying on parents who are simply trying to ensure their kids lives aren't ruined by sub-standard socialist education should be strung-up from a convenient lamp post.

As for your suggestion that I move away from this land, I really don't see why I should. I was born here, as were my parents and their parents back as far as records go.



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07 Jan 2009, 4:41 pm

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Uh, what's wrong with encouraging the usage of public transportation?

From what I can see, the car culture in America has been a mistake and a classic textbook case study of poor prior planning in the 50s.


Yes and the tax that's been put into that hasn't happened still over here.......

I'd be a happy gal if this were true then I wouldn't have to walk so many miles to a bus stop that only goes a certain place or have to get a ride to go to a grocery store because there are no side walks or places for pedestrians to walk.


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07 Jan 2009, 6:09 pm

ascan wrote:
ascan wrote:
... conspiring to send their kids to a decent school...

Kangoogle wrote:
Since when has being a thieving fraudster been a minor offence? Because that is what it effectively amounts to.

Wanting to send your kids to a school where most of the pupils actually speak English, where arguments aren't settled with knives or guns, and where the majority don't parade around in the strange garb of far-off lands is quite reasonable, Kangoogle. Afterall, most of us never asked for our country to be turned into such a wretched mess. To be honest, any government official spying on parents who are simply trying to ensure their kids lives aren't ruined by sub-standard socialist education should be strung-up from a convenient lamp post.

Now we move to mass hysteria. My school was not like that, officially it is still a state comp, albeit in a posh area. But most of them were cheats who relied totally on private tuition to get them few.

The result is that my university (one of the top, if not the top for quite few courses) is now full of the fuckwits from Privates, Grammars, and bucketloads of private tuition. Whats disgusting as that most of these will have the plum jobs out of all this. We need a meritocracy.
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As for your suggestion that I move away from this land, I really don't see why I should. I was born here, as were my parents and their parents back as far as records go.

Just like the Muslims then...