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The town of Killarney Manitoba has seen a recent rise in vandalism in the town of 3300 people and a curfew for people 17 years old and younger has been proposed in order to deal with it.
"They're out jumping around on rooftops on Main Street; they've been dancing around on a few vehicles," (Mayor Rick Pauls) said. "We've had some of our picnic tables and park benches thrown into our lake."
Sounds like some laws are being broken there. If there are already laws being broken, then why the curfew? Shouldn't these folks be handled for the crimes they already committed?
This is a lazy way to police people. It punishes the many for the acts of the few, which is not fair nor just. It also marks everyone in that town of a certain age range as a criminal, which is collectivist and disturbing. Individuals are causing the harm, not entire age groups.
Plus, the government has no right to tell entire age groups that they can't be in public. This is public property, they own a piece of it. Why the cut-off at 17? It's because 18 is an "adult" and for some reason they feel that they can pick on people under 18, but oh no, once you're 18 you are magically transformed into an adult and have personal responsibility.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms says;
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly
Unless of course, you are aged 0-17 and live in Killarney Manitoba.
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When society decides to make a curfew law and therefore take away everyone's freedom for the purpose of reducing crime, they seem to forget about people like me who are not criminals, but will become criminals once their freedom is taken away.
I greatly value freedom to its highest ends; and if I feel like my freedom is being trampled on, I become very angry. Curfews will provoke otherwise good citizens, like myself, to become criminals who hurt society for taking away a freedom.
Make your choice society. Do you prefer the criminals that were present before the curfew law? Or do you prefer the criminals that were made when you took my freedom away? I warn you that the second group will be much angrier than the first, so make your choice carefully.
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