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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:20 pm
What is your opinion on curfews?
Here where I live the curfew is 10:30 PM to 6:00 Am from Sunday to Thursday. On Friday and Saturday it is from 12:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
Do you think this is right? Or is it wrong? Does it limit freedom and oppress the teen population or does it protect the community.
Do you have a curfew? Do you like it? Does it help? Does it hurt?
All in all what is your opinion on curfews and why?
Not the most politically important thing but oh well.........
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:57 pm
Generally, blanket curfews should not be permitted. They are only really justifiable in exceptional circumstances.
For troublesome individuals however, curfews are indeed justified and fair.
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:35 pm
Teenagers have limited rights when they're under 18, and not all parents are the most responsible people in the world. I know when I was younger, my sister would have a girl coming over at 5am ringing our doorbell asking if she could play. My parents were in the military and they barely got up that early for PT.
I find it no different than teenagers not being allowed to work certain hours or more than so many hours if they have a job.
In ways I suppose it protects the community from the acts of hooligans who might go out and smack mailboxes with baseball bats. -scowls- Had that happen a few times.
I have no opinion on it really, though I prefer it being there. It doesn't hurt, because teenagers should be in bed at night, sleeping. Or at least doing something in their home. I find that it is also protection for teenagers in the fact that there are people who prey on those who are out at all hours. Again, my sister...walked downtown when she was 15 at 3am to meet up with her boyfriend at the time. A guy drove up in a car, tried to get her to allow him to give her a ride, then parked, got out, tried to feel her up, she wound around and punched him before running the opposite direction. She was picked up by a nice policeman who brought her home. Sufficed to say, none of us were happy. I never minded when she'd just walk around our neighborhood at night, we lived in a fairly safe one, but when she walked outside of the neighborhood, I got pissed.
So I find curfews completely reasonable as long as they're not too strict. Because I wouldn't have wanted to stop her from taking her normal nightly walks around the block. She'd just come home and curl up in bed then. So no harm no foul.
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:40 pm
Chibi_Brigham What is your opinion on curfews?Here where I live the curfew is 10:30 PM to 6:00 Am from Sunday to Thursday. On Friday and Saturday it is from 12:00 PM to 6:00 AM. Do you think this is right? Or is it wrong? Does it limit freedom and oppress the teen population or does it protect the community. Do you have a curfew? Do you like it? Does it help? Does it hurt? All in all what is your opinion on curfews and why?Not the most politically important thing but oh well......... In what we may call a "bad" naiborhood, it allows the cops to hold a person, in which it is legal to find drugs and search them. Thus keeping the streets a little cleaner.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:14 am
Drewser Chibi_Brigham What is your opinion on curfews?Here where I live the curfew is 10:30 PM to 6:00 Am from Sunday to Thursday. On Friday and Saturday it is from 12:00 PM to 6:00 AM. Do you think this is right? Or is it wrong? Does it limit freedom and oppress the teen population or does it protect the community. Do you have a curfew? Do you like it? Does it help? Does it hurt? All in all what is your opinion on curfews and why?Not the most politically important thing but oh well......... In what we may call a "bad" naiborhood, it allows the cops to hold a person, in which it is legal to find drugs and search them. Thus keeping the streets a little cleaner. But that violates the 4th Amendment and its protection against unreasonable search and siezure.(in this case id's)
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:31 pm
Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:20 pm
Chibi_Brigham But that violates the 4th Amendment and its protection against unreasonable search and siezure.(in this case id's)
Not really. It's not unreasonable at night to assume that someone might be hooking, or doing/dealing drugs. It's their primary time, particularly in the case of turning tricks.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:32 pm
DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:27 pm
Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews.
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:02 am
DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews.
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AmmonSuperCombo Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:37 am
DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews. just a wee bit paranoid aren't we? the curfew in my area is midnight on weekdays. dunno on weekends...
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:00 pm
Invictus_88 DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews. The definition of irrelevant. it doesnt matter who imposes it: curfews are evil
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:03 pm
AmmonSuperCombo DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews. just a wee bit paranoid aren't we? the curfew in my area is midnight on weekdays. dunno on weekends... not more paranoid that all the gun nuts who oppose registration because they have their own private militias as check for government power: aka: everyone in the NRA (ps: im an ex-NRA member and do oppose registration, but for different reasons)
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:18 pm
DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews. The definition of irrelevant. it doesnt matter who imposes it: curfews are evil
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:47 pm
Invictus_88 DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Invictus_88 DarthNader Curfews are the signature of authoritarianism rarely does the population need more protection than from a government so mad with power they think they can put curfews. The definition of irrelevant. it doesnt matter who imposes it: curfews are evil no, your mom has a hazy understanding of the word evil  All I'm saying is this: If you don't have a healty ( and by healthy, I mean paranoid) hate and fear of authoritarianism of any and all kinds, you haven't read 1984 enough times
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