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Nanny statism not just a local problem

By Gritsforbreakfast

Are a slew of petty municipal ordinances turning the city of Dallas into a "nanny state"? So far, 79% of respondents in an online poll at the Dallas News say "Yes."Dallas police often can't solve the crime problems that really frighten people, like a series of increasingly brazen burglaries in East Dallas, but the city council is busy making up a whole slew of additional "crimes" that divert law enforcement's resources away from more serious offenses ("Some recent laws seen as protecting Dallas residents from themselves," March 28):At the decade's dawn, Dallasites could smoke in restaurants, walk their dogs without carrying a pooper-scooper and stroll through downtown or South Dallas without being monitored by police video cameras.Children, meanwhile, were free to run through parks playing with their toy six-shooters...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).