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Libertarians: Trying to get people to
mind their own business since 1971.
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Well, you probably already know what my position on this is, but I'll say it anyway. I like it. If it is a cost that they want to add to their business, that is their choice, but it will speed up the lines in cases where alcohol (and likely tobacco too) is involved.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Were you surprised that I don't mind it?

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Libertarians: Trying to get people to
mind their own business since 1971.
The Freedom Files

I mind it! It is an intrusion on the right to privacy. If I chose to wear a hat, (wig if bald), (scarf if women), (make up), or sunglasses I will be forced to remove them if I wish to purchase liquor. Choice yes! Intrusion Yes! Under the guise of making it easier for corporations to ID you and sell your information. Not far off is the 666 tattoo!

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

Just go to a different shop.

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

If this catches on though you will not be able to enter a shop without having to go through this?

This technology is pretty far off from being really reliable from what I can tell. Hell most casinos do not have this running. Way to many false positives (meaning the person can legally buy booze but matches someone that cannot).

The government probably thinks this is a great idea, a massive database gets stored for them while the private sector foots the bill for it all.

Have you watched how corporations work? First one trys the water to see if the public will put up with it, then they all jump on. Pretty soon there is no where else to go. Oregon has state run liquor, so they would all do it. Then most people are so willing to give up their rights, they could care less. Like a bunch of cattle headed to the slaughter.

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

My God, look at all the people screaming 'konspiracy, invasion of privacy'. The only people who have anything to worry about are those who are doing something wrong.

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Oh, yeah, that old saw.

I disagree with this one (hell, I think the drinking age should be 18, not 21, but that's a different story). From personal experience, the problem is not minors buying alcohol, it's them buying it or getting it from people who are allowed to buy it.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you're old enough to fight, you're old enough to drink.

So true, but even then, i believe it should be a parents choice if children can drink in their presence (and if the minor becomes inebriated, the parents should be charged).

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