lazarus1983
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Okay, so has anyone else here heard of the old story about the boy who cried wolf? I think that comparing what allegedly happened to his guy at Circuit City to a police state is retarded. This is not an invasion of civil liberties, this is a privately owned entity trying to protect its own ass. As I stated, YOU HAVE A CHOICE NOT TO SHOP THERE. When I think of the beginnings of a police state and the erosion of civil liberties, I think of the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, WWII Internment Camps, Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpeus (sp?) during the Civil War...NOT this guy refusing to show a receipt to a Circuit City employee. Crying wolf each time something like this happens, will eventually make us not care when a REAL threat occurs. Kind of like how those worthless scumbags Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton scream racism so many times that we no longer listen or care. Many people are to the point where when someone screams racism, we just roll our eyes and say "whatever." And as I pointed out, we don't know if this is what really happened. He could have left out details to make himself appear more in the right. I think we've all given this man and his little drama more attention than it deserves. There are more important, legitimately dangerous threats, to our civil liberties. Bag checking is nothing more than an inconvenience that can be avoided by making a choice on where you shop.
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