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Sunday, December 26, 2004

Yorks police respond to their critics

Christopher Booker, in his column today, follows up on the travails of this Blogger:

West Yorkshire police certainly have a clear sense of priorities. At 25 minutes to midnight last Saturday, two policemen arrived at the door of my friend (and co-author) Dr Richard North in Bradford, threatening to kick it in. Instead, they entered his home through a window, scattering china ornaments, and arrested him.

They took him to Bradford's main police station, where he was thrown into a freezing cell for the night without bedding.

North's offence was that, for the second time in a few months, he had withheld his council tax. This is his continuing protest against the ever-rising payments that are demanded for what he and his neighbours regard as the lack of any proper service from their local police. Their street has suffered from a long succession of burglaries, without attracting much interest from the police, until two years ago.

North was in dispute with the police over a minor traffic offence. When bailiffs came to his door demanding the keys to his £12,000 car in payment of a £60 fine, he pointed out that this was illegal, since the car was "tools of trade". The baililffs called the police. Within minutes, five policemen arrived and frogmarched Dr North to the cells, where he remained for several hours until his long-suffering wife Mary arrived with the money.

Only later were North's solicitors allowed to see the court warrant. It had specifically prohibited the bailiffs from removing his car.

Act Two of this drama came last summer when North paid his council tax, but withheld the "police precept". Ordered to pay by the court, he offered to make his payment by credit card. This was not allowed, nor was he permitted to leave the court to obtain the cash. He was sentenced to 14 days in Armley prison. It was only that evening, when a friendly journalist arrived with the cash, that the prisoner was allowed to go free.

Last weekend came Act Three, when North was again arrested for not paying council tax. Normally, with a bailiff, he could have paid by credit card. But when the two policemen arrived just before midnight, having been seen reconnoitring the premises that afternoon, they would only take cash. Since this was not easy to obtain at such an hour, he was thrown into solitary confinement for 36 hours, to await Monday morning when Mary could arrive with cash to
release him.

Asked why it had been necessary to arrest him at this hour, West Yorkshire police explained: "It so happened that resources were available at that time on Saturday night" (even though, elsewhere, Bradford was undergoing its usual weekend mayhem). A source inside the police said, rather more plausibly: "It was to teach him a lesson."
Although the police so often bleat about "lack of resources", it is very difficult to take them seriously when they seem to have so much time and resource available to pursue their own vendettas.

More to the point, its is a "given" in this country that the police operate by "consent", relying on the support of the greater part of the law-abiding community in order to do their job.

As the speed cameras proliferate, as the police retreat more and more from dealing with "ordinary" crime", and as they indulge in the sort of activity described in this Blog, one wonder how long it will take them to realise that they are increasingly losing the confidence and support of ordinary people. And what will they do then?

Friday, December 24, 2004

Merry Christmas

Christmas is a time of festive cheer and good will to all men (and women). With obvious exceptions, I therefore wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy (jail-free) New Year.

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Reactions to "a free country"

To everyone that has responded to me by e-mail and phone, thank you very much for my support. to those critics who say, somewhat simplistically, "you should pay your taxes" - think about it.

Specifically, council tax is about paying for services, including the police. In any other walk of life, if you pay you something, you have a right to get the service you pay for and if you do not, you have a right to withhold payment - and any court in the land will stand up for your right to do that.

But council tax is different. Not only do you have no rights to any service - and there is no functioning complaints system (have you ever tried to complain about WYMP, even when their officers break the law? I wish you luck) - but if you dare to withhold payment, you go to jail.

By any measure this is wrong, wrong, wrong. And the reason the government gets away with it is because WE let then. But I'm not suggesting you go as far as I do and go to jail - I did not intend to go to jail. But there are more of us than there are of them, and the only way the system works is because we co-operate - WE comply - like good little girls and boys, we do as our masters tell us, even though we hate the system and know it is wrong.

This is not the creed of free men and women. It is the creed of slaves... of whimps. what you do is "block the system". You don't pay on time... you pay irregular amounts, at odd intervals, you write letters, you miss signatures off cheques... there are a hundred and one ways of messing up the system, without ever pushing it too far. Without our active support, the system collapses.

Anyhow, I'll leave as a sample of the responses, one comment I picked up off a discussion board, in response to a critic who said "pay your taxes":

...everyone retains the right to act as they please, as long as it does not infringe on the liberty of others. i would say "yea, aviod tax, get fucked" but he is making an importantpoint that the pigs dont solve crime, they raise cash. last month, three blokes wearing balaclavas and with ten inch kitchen knives burst into my house threatening to torture me, as they had been wrongly informed i sold coke (i fucking hate thestuff)

They took two days to come round, and the cid didnt turn up to take my statement (my first one mind) for two and a half weeks they could have got life, but becaus ei was an art student, and had no cash (=power) they didnt give a shit.

The pigs in this country are no better than the organised criminals that run bristol, or parts of london. they are thugs with no intention of keeping any peace or protecting ant innocents (unless theres a headline in it for em)

Why should we pay for these cunts? i dont pay for the crack heads in st pauls, so why should i pay for the pigs? or the military? i might do if we lived in a working democracy and i could actually do something about it, but that aint the case..

Police brutality, racism and corruption is a serious issue, that even the main stream press and govt regulators are acknowleding.

Why arent you?
Not the words I would have used, but I completely endorse the sentiments. I have been told or seen written hundreds of such stories, and been involved in some, which is why I chose not to pay. And it is not just the police but the council as a whole, corrupt, inefficient, expensive and each year they put up the bill.

SO WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR SOMETHING WE SIMPLY DO NOT GET. There is something serious wrong with a system which regards debt collection as more important than catching criminals and keeping the peace or, in more general terms, doing its job at a reasonable price.

Monday, December 20, 2004

So you think you live in a free country?

You really think that? Well, let me tell you that you do not. On Saturday night, 11.35pm, I had two uniformed policemen at the door, threatening to kick it in unless I opened it. When I opened the window to talk to them, one pushed the window fully open, sweeping the china onto the sink, and climbed into the house.

Were they attending the scene of a serious crime? Forget it - that takes days. Were they dealing with a serious criminal? Well you judge that. While the usual Saturday night mayhem was breaking our in Bradford centre, stretching police resources to breaking point, these policement were out debt collecting - on behalf of the state. And I owed the state money - my outstanding council tax.

Last year, I withheld £80 - that being the amount owed for the police precept - as a protest against the lamentable performance of West Yorkshire Police. Despite the furore over that, they official reaction was nil. Not a thing changed. Not even a glimmer of recognition that I had a just cause, and a reasonable complaint. So this year, I added a nought.

In fact, though - for reasons which I explain below - I have been playing this "game" for years. And yes, there was a bailiff's warrant out on me, and yes I hade been playing "cat and mouse" with him. But he would have caught up with me sooner or later and, at that point, I would have paid. And the warrant stated clearly that "plastic" was acceptable.

But last Saturday night, there was not a bailiff in sight. Instead we had West Yorkshire finest, performing their priority role - debt collection. Never mind what theft, thuggery or mayhem was going on - their priority was debt collection. And, becuase they were the police and not the bailiffs, they could not accept "plastic". It had to be cash - the better part of a thousand quid (with the bailiff's fees added), or go to jail immediately, do not pass go, until Monday, when the banks open and someone could pay the money in.

So you can see the game. North has provoked them and they are going to extract their revenge. Pick a time when the maximum inconvenience and distress is caused, and go in there at a time when it is virtually impossible to get the cash, and pick up North.

Now, this could happen to every one of you that has the fortune and misfortune to own or have a beneficial interest in property – of the bricks and mortar kind. And what it amounts to is that you are only free so long as you pay your annual license fee to the state.

More commonly, this "license" is known as the council tax, for those who actually live in the property they own or rent, but its better description is that of "license". As a tax it makes no sense. It is levied arbitrarily, the charge on the individual bears no relation to his or her ability to pay, and the amount thus extracted bears absolutely no relation to the goods or services supposedly provided.

Furthermore, while you are required as of law to pay for those "services", whether you want them or not, the recipient of your enforced largess offers no reciprocation. You have no rights nor any sanction if those services that you do need or desire – which the state purports to supply – and if they fall short of the minimum expected, you must still pay – and pay, and pay.

For, each year, the state comes back with its hand out, and each year, the amount it demand increases – way above the rate of inflation - yet each year there is no discernible improvement in services and, in many respects, the quality of services claimed to be provided seem to decline.

But most crucially, unlike any other debt, there is no negotiation or recourse to the normal edicts of civil law; no appeal that the taxmasters were charging you more than you could bear; that they were unjust. The equation is simple: pay up or go to jail. You are not free men and women. The default position in this society for every person subject to this iniquitous tax is prison – we stave it off only by our annual subventions of Danegeld to the ravening monster, and we pay, whether we like it or not.

And we do pay - or you do. You grumble, we chaff, some write to newspapers, some to your MPs. You debate, you have discourses, and you vote for councillors and MPs – but none of these activities have any influence on the rate and nature of this tax. It stays, and each year it goes up. And you pay - but some of us go to prison.

So what should you do? Says Henry David Thoreau – the grandfather of civil disobedience – you are guided by your conscience. In his "papers on civil disobedience" he writes:

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
He writes many other things on this topic, and many of those things apply to the iniquitous council tax. For instance, he suggests that:

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable… All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counter-balance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer…
Another quote from him that I particularly like is:

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
And then, in respect of each and every one of you individually, he writes:

Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
"Action from principle," he writes — which he defines as "the perception and the performance of right" — "changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine."

So, not paying my council tax until they come to get me is an act of folly? It is a useless, puerile gesture, which causes me and those close to me great hardship and distress? It is a waste of time – after all, you cannot beat City Hall?

All right, maybe it is all of that. But it is also an act of principle. And, as Thoreau says: "The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right." I agree with Thoreau on this and if, as I do, I think council tax is unjust - nay iniquitous – that the automatic penalty for non-payment is imprisonment, whatever the provocation, is a disgrace and a negation of the very concept of freedom, then what right do you have to pay it, without protest, each and every year. What right have you to roll over and take the easy way out, for convenience, for an easy life, or because you simply cannot be bothered to fight City Hall?

And here Thoreau has it in one. He writes of "obligation" – "The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right." That is the view I take, and I think the council tax – for all the reasons state – is a vile, perverse tax. To try my best to frustrate it is, as I see it, not an option. It is an obligation.

So, I spent Saturday night, all of Sunday and the better part of Monday in a 9ft x 9ft cell. What did you do with your weekend?

Monday, July 26, 2004

Er… there’s a law against it!

Earlier this month, as recounted on this Blog, I received a happy little missive from the DVLA demanding £80 for being late taxing my car. This is of course a new impost by the regulatory authorities who have long failed to enforce the law, resulting in an estimated 1,000,000 untaxed and uninsured vehicles on the road.

Now conscious of the scale of money slipping from their grasp, the authorities therefore decided to get a grip of the situation - not by actually getting out on the streets and picking up the tax evaders, but by creating a new charge for everyone, if they fail to get to the post office on time.
Anyhow, by an almost comical set of circumstances, I was late in getting my tax, but not least because the car spent two weeks in the garage being repaired, which delayed me getting an MOT.

Having sent a letter to the DVLA, explaining the circumstances, together with the documents and a cheque, I received almost by return of post, a tax disc, suitably backdated, which is what I asked them to do.

For one moment, I thought, sense had prevailed. But, oh no. I had reckoned without the mind of the bureaucrat… especially when there is a chance of easy money.

In the post I have received another letter, this one from a Mrs P Woolley, Enforcement Manager, pointing out that although I have paid my full tax, I still owe them another £80 for being late - or £40 if I cough up quick. If the car was going to be off the road – which indeed it was – I should have sent a SORN declaration (notwithstanding that I did not know it was going to be off the road).

Anyhow, it may come as a surprise to some, but there is a law against this sort of thing. It is called The Bill of Rights of 1689. And it is still in force. Accordingly, I have sent my own happy little note to the said Mrs P Woolley, which I reproduce below. I will let you know how I get on.

Mrs P Woolley
Enforcement Manager
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Continuous Registration Centre
3rd Floor Riverside House
Riverside Way
Northampton, NN1 5WW
24 July 2004

I write with reference to your letter of 21 July and your demand that I make a payment of £40/80 to the DVLA as a penalty for late payment of vehicle excise duty.

In response, may I refer you to the Bill of Rights 1689, this being an Act "Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown". I am sure you are aware that this states, inter alia, "That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void".

You may also be aware that the Bill of Rights remains on the statute book and has not been repealed, and is therefore still in force. Furthermore, in the absence of any specific subsequent Act, directly and specifically repealing the above-quoted provision, you may not rely on the principle of implied repeal, the Bill being a constitutional Act.

On this basis, given that I have not yet been convicted in respect of any matter relating to the payment or non-payment of vehicle excise duty, any demand for payment of a penalty is, as set out by the Bill, "illegal and void".

Unless you are able to cite me a valid authority, by which you can demonstrate unequivocally that your demand is in fact legal, therefore, I am advised that I am in no way obligated to comply with your demand.

Yours faithfully,

Richard North (Dr)

Friday, July 23, 2004

Burglary is better

I hope the West Yorkshire constabularly are truly proud of their pathetic record of solving a mere 10 percent of burlaries - less than the national average of 13 percent, which is also pathetic.

Interestingly, I write this to the background strains of yet another burglar alarm warbling in the distance, polluting the quiet of our suburban backwater. At least, though, it is relatively distant. Through the week, the house next but one to us had its alarm go off at twenty-minute intervals - only the occupants are on holiday so there was no-one who could deal with it. It took three days to get the damn thing shut down, making life intolerable in the interim, as the penetrating noise could be heard clearly even with the double-glazing windows shut tight.

When then alarm first went off, we of course - like good neighbours - did a check round the house, to see if there were any signs of entry, but there were none. Of the police, of course, no sign either. They were far too busy dealing with "real" crime.

Talking of which, it is nice to see that the guardians of our liberties are hard at work protecting the environment in South Wales - two council officials pounced on Andrew Stevenson from Llanelli and issued him with a £75 fixed penalty ticket - under anti-litter laws - for stubbing out a cigarette on the ground outside his workplace.

This is something of a characteristic in this country - the extraordinary negativity of public authorities in the conduct of their affairs. If there is a problem - don't solve it; simply make the behaviour an offence, and then fine people.

In Tokyo, where there are equally stringent anti-litter laws, I was fascinated to see that even in the public parks, the walks are lined with rather stylish ashtrays, conveniently placed for the peripatetic smoker. Obeying the law there is no a problem.

Anyway, if Blare's £80 fines for thieving come into force, Stevenson might be better employed on burglary than actually going to work. Against £75 for a quick drag before he went into his - smoke-free - place of work, if he had waited a little longer, he could have burgled the place and only risked an £80 fine - with a much better chance of getting away with it.

Thursday, July 22, 2004

A principled stand

It seems it’s all right to stand up and be counted when it comes to protesting about Council tax, but one whiff of a suggestion about disagreeing with the prevailing mantras on mobile phone or "speeding" and out come the zealots, foaming at the mouth.

One such was M E Wright, of Grove Road, Harrogate, who is definitely one of the "red flag" brigade. He was moved to write to the Yorkshire Post:, as follows:

I started with a sneaking feeling of admiration for Richard North who took a principled (if ill-advised) stand in withholding the police precept on his council tax bill, following his being burgled five times. Reading on, I saw that his other "principled stands" were related to speeding and driving while using a mobile phone.

Burglars go about their nefarious business with no thought for the distress caused to their victims. So, too, do drivers like Dr North, but there is an important difference: burglars rarely kill or injure; arrogant and boorish drivers are killing every day of the year.

What is interesting about this letter is that Wright manages to deduce from a few words in a newspaper the precise nature of my character, deciding that I am "arrogant and boorish". Note also, the use of the word "victim", in an attempt to grab the high ground. I "speed", therefore I am a killer of babies and old ladies.

Anyhow, here is my response:

It was really clever of Mr Wright to divine what he did from what he considers to be my "principled stands" related to speeding and driving while using a mobile phone. Not least, from the limited information he had available to him, he infers that drivers like me go about my business "with no thought for the distress caused to their (presumably my) victims".

I have to say though that his real skill was packing in so many errors with so much prejudice into such a short letter.

Firstly, my stand on "speeding" was not on speed limits, per se, but on the outdated and irrelevant motorway speed limit. This was introduced in 1965 when the average family car of the time could only just exceed 70 mph. But cars are faster now, better equipped, safer in all respects – and motorways are also better designed and equipped.

I take the view that, if there was a safety case in 1965 for restricting the top speed of motor cars to 70 mph, it no longer applies nearly 40 years later. The law as it stands is an unnecessary and unreasonable restriction on the freedom of the individual.

Secondly, my other protest was not about using mobile phones while driving, but about the police inventing an offence before parliament had decided to make it so, and then fining me for something which was not then against the law. Call me old fashioned if you like, but I believe our parliament should make the law.

Finally, as to my "victims", in thirty years of driving, and nearly a million miles behind the wheel, I have only caused one accident, when I collided with a parked car in Harrogate town centre while driving at about 10 mph. I have never injured anyone in my whole career and it is 27 years since I last had an accident.

Perhaps, therefore, Mr Wright might wish to consider whether he and many others might be better off if there were more drivers like me on the road.

You want "arrogant and boorish"? Mister… I ain’t even started.


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Comments on: Ross says Dolphins stadium can’t get done with his money alone ProFootballTalk on Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: dolphincritic Fri, 24 May 2013 00:49:03 +0000 I would like to see Super Bowl to be played t the home stadium of either the NFC or AFC champion with the best record. This rewards the fans who buy the season tickets, the overpriced food and the Jerseys. These cold weather Super Bowls and the stadium blackmail proves that there are no rational arguements for not following this format.

By: rvbryan Thu, 23 May 2013 17:51:40 +0000 dolphinsrule65….thank you for bringing FACTS to the table. Some posters here refuse to let facts get in the way of a good argument. To the one who suggested that Jerry Jones paid for Cowboys stadium:

2004: In April, the Cowboys announce plans to build a $650 million stadium at Fair Park in Dallas. The deal requires $425 million in public financing from a 3 percent hotel-occupancy tax and a 6 percent car-rental tax. The deal falls apart in June when Dallas County commissioners say they cannot justify asking voters to approve the team’s request for $425 million in public funding. In July, the Cowboys and Arlington announce they are negotiating to locate the stadium near Rangers Ballpark in Arlington (then Ameriquest Field). In August, the Arlington City Council agrees unanimously to put before voters a tax increase that would fund the city’s $325 million portion of the project. Voters approve the tax increase on November 2.

By: sargeisf Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:51 +0000 The team will not leave Florida. They will either move to Palm Beach county and a new stadium, or find a way to get the renovations done.

Personally, I hope they do move to Palm Beach. Its a better location, more money in the area, and it will pull more fans that have moved out of Miami to get away from the traffic, and crime.

And to sweeten the pot a little better, It will infringe on the Tampa Bay Bucks coverage area. This will affect that senator from Tampa that stopped the city from voting in Tallahassee. In my opinion, he should have not been allowed to rule over the referendum being that he represents another football town that is in direct competition for Super bowls in Florida.

By: xpensivewinos Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:41 +0000 Is Ross willing to shell out enough for a saxophone and a tin cup?

He can earn the money he needs the old fashioned way. Anyone dumb enough to give a billionaire their money for this project can pay him directly in cold, hard cash.

Every decision this guy has made since he bought the team has been a catastrophic failure or total embarrassment. Couldn’t be happier to see this creep and his henchmen fail.

By: drewrey88 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:07:40 +0000 Palm Beach County – $300,000,000 +
Stephen Ross – $350,000,000 +
Minute Maid – $350,000,000 = $1 billion for the
Brand New “Minute Maid (or Coca-Cola) Orange Bowl Stadium” in Palm Beach County.

-Just dreaming here.-

By: blancodiablo Wed, 22 May 2013 03:29:16 +0000 What’s with the Cali jealousy of Florida? Try San Diego weather in June. Enjoy 10% state income taxes and the illegal immigrants.

By: rodericksilva Wed, 22 May 2013 01:36:02 +0000 Miami needs to be able to stop furloughing their employees first. Find a way to keep them from having to contribute 5% of their salaries on top of their above average medical insurance rates for basic coverage.

Lets fix our house first before we fix Ross’

By: phathead7 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:17:11 +0000 MIAMI is already getting screwed by the baseball stadium that nobody goes building a new stadium for the dolphins and wanting tax payers to pay for it is out of the question.

By: sclazo Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:54 +0000 .

”just the facts ”

Your facts did not include Gillette Stadium in New England. Bob Kraft built it on his own.

Joe Robbie built the Dolphins stadium. Kraft built that stadium before the new rules went into effect. He couldn’t do it today the NFL will not allow it.

By: mustbechris Tue, 21 May 2013 23:56:21 +0000 ““It has to be a public-private partnership,” Ross said. ”

It IS a public-private partnership. It’s a partnership between your back account and your ticket buyers.

““We have to sit and think how we can really get the support for it,” Ross said.”

Good luck. You might be better off opening a lemonade stand.

By: pgilbert15303 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:55:23 +0000 That’s okay. We’ll have a fantastic time in the Bay Area and Houston/Austin.

Florida is go for four things: Palm Beach, South Beach, Spring Training and The Milf Hunter.

The Dolphins, Tampa Bay Rays Fans (400 of them) can try again later.

By: gmfort Tue, 21 May 2013 22:44:57 +0000 Hey NFL! Keep your Super Bowls! And while you’re at it take the Dolphins too!

By: 6ball Tue, 21 May 2013 22:11:36 +0000 .

”just the facts ”

Your facts did not include Gillette Stadium in New England. Bob Kraft built it on his own.

By: evilglazers666 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:56:21 +0000 We just paid for a stupid Marlins stadium!

By: sclazo Tue, 21 May 2013 21:56:16 +0000 Pst of you simpletons beating your chests don’t understand. The NFL will not allow Mr. Ross to pay 100% of the renovation or to build a new stadium. He is will to pay most if the cost at 70%. It’s not his rule, its the NFL’s.

By: evilglazers666 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:54:59 +0000 We will put up money and charge you for interest and give us revenue sharing!

By: topseed Tue, 21 May 2013 21:49:04 +0000 I agree with you dolphinsrules…Lets have us a new stadium with a dome and the whole nine yards.

Mr. Braman, if you hate taxpayer putting the money, then associate with Mr. Ross and pay the other half…or are you a Dolphins hater?

Don’t tell me that in South Florida more than $400 billion are moving weekly in business/government transactions!

By: stopthemadness101 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:48:00 +0000 dangernearing says:
May 21, 2013 4:23 PM
Florida is nothing more than a vacationing spot. Move the team to LA.

It’s tools like you that enable the owners to play the taxpayers on one city against another. Screw you. NO EXISTING TEAM IS MOVING TO LA.

You’ve already blown your chance chump. You’ll be lucky to get an expansion team someday.

By: thelastpieceofcheese Tue, 21 May 2013 21:36:27 +0000 Without public funding the Miami Dolphins will become the San Antonio Cactus.

By: tommyribs Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:35 +0000 I think that if NFL owners cannot or will not pay for their own stadiums, then they should stay in the stadium they are in, or just sell the team.

These guys make money hand over fist every single year, and can show a path to pay off their loan.

Seat licenses and public funds should not have to be used. If they are used, then the profits made on those events should be used to pay back the public funds that were used.

If Steven Ross can pay for 70%, then he can pay for 100%

If he can’t pay for 100% and reap all of the profits, then he should sell to someone who can.

End of Story.

By: denverdude7 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:28:23 +0000 Pay for your own upgrades Mr. Ross.

We the people are tapped out, broke & busted.

The NFL’s Piggy Bank of the Public is officially closed.

By: dolphinsrule65 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:27:43 +0000 I’am tired of hearing ignorant people say, “Let the business pay for its own facilities.”
First, it is common practice for governments to entice/reward businesses to locate/stay located in their jurisdiction with tax incentives and building of infrastructure. It happens everyday everywhere. It is part of the government/business partnership. Since government benefits from business taxes and local revenue taxes from business, it only seems logical for government to kick in some of the costs.
Second and most important, NFL teams only use the stadium 10 to 13 times a year. The rest of the days the stadium is open for other public uses. Why should a team pay all the costs when others benefit? When the NFL first started, they only located in towns that already had a college stadium or baseball park. Now that the NFL is mature and crowds are too big for the local college stadium or minor league park, NFL teams need larger stadiums. That does not relieve the public from paying for part of the cost.

By: dolphinsrule65 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:26:04 +0000 Apparently you haven’t been paying too close attention to every single NFL stadium in the NFL. They have ALL been financed at some degree by the cities they occupy. The city understands the monetary risk as the revenue generated by venues at said stadium are far greater in returns. Having the taxpayers contribute to a percentage of investment is how EVERY SINGLE thing gets built in every city. The whole point is to create wealth in a city. If the owners solely built the stadium on their own dime, the city would only get tax revenues and nothing more. The cities negotiate returns based on their investment. In essence, the city of Arlington in Texas financed a large portion of the stadium and are reaping the returns exponentially. Learn what you are talking about and understand local commerce before you spout off your rhetoric about those FAT CATS you despise so much. You have to spend money to make money or does that cliche allude your intellect?

By: dolphinsrule65 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:24:51 +0000 Just the facts folks…

Cleveland Browns (1999)
Stadium cost: $290 million
Percentage of public funding: 74.7%

Pittsburgh Steelers (2001)
Stadium cost: $357.5 million
Percentage of public funding:78.7%

Denver Broncos (2001)
Cost: $365 million
Percentage of public financing : 68.4%

Houston Texans (2002)
Cost: $424 million
Percentage of public financing: 73%

Philadelphia Eagles (2003)
Cost: $474 million
Percentage of public financing: 40%

Arizona Cardinals (2007)
Cost: $455 million
Percentage of public financing: 67.7%

Indianapolis Colts
Cost: $720 million
Percentage of public financing: 86%

Dallas Cowboys (2009)
Stadium cost: $1.2 billion
Percentage of public financing: 28

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1998)
Stadium cost: $168.5million
Percentage of public funding: 100%

By: topseed Tue, 21 May 2013 21:24:03 +0000 Wait a minute, can anyone tell me how all that money is going to impact a regular guy pocket? I would like my Dolphins to have a nice stadium. A new one if possible! Why the other teams can have it and we don’t?

…and please, if you are not a Dolphin fan or living in South Florida, stop commenting!!! This has nothing to do with you.

By: dangernearing Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:44 +0000 Stop acting like FL is so great. It’s where old people go to die and poor people go to get good weather. Here in San Diego….. Now that’s where the beautiful girls and perfect weather exists.
san Diego..bwahahaha! Home of the gays and Jason Collins lol

By: bobonmycob Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:08 +0000 Dolphins Nation says: May 21, 2013 4:10 PM

Yawn….we do not need a SuperBowl to have a party here in South FLA. Enjoy the cold weather SB’s, are hotel rooms are 90% filled in Jan/ Feb anyway.

Stop acting like FL is so great. It’s where old people go to die and poor people go to get good weather. Here in San Diego….. Now that’s where the beautiful girls and perfect weather exists.

By: bookofelisha10 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:05:47 +0000 TRANSLATION-

im a cheap billionaire who wants a new stadium but i dont want to shell out all my money that i could use 5 times over to make 5 stadium. SO im going to ask the normal citizens who already shell out hundreds per person per ticket who doesnt have 1/10th of the money i have to pay for something i want.

gotcha ross!

By: nebster21 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:02:52 +0000 I believe the banks funded the entire stadium. Jerry and company just took the loan out. Just imagine if there was not a season. I am pretty sure Jerry would have been worrying about his loan payment. I wonder what the payment on that is something like $30 million a year.

By: godfatherd Tue, 21 May 2013 21:01:05 +0000 Detroit’s stadium was funded 100% with private money, So unless Ross is putting up 100%, the percentage he puts up will be less than at least one other team put up for their stadium.


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Crime Opportunity theory is a theory that suggests that offenders make rational choices and thus choose targets that offer a high reward with little effort and risk. The occurrence of a crime depends on two things: the presence of at least one motivated offender who is ready or willing to engage in a crime, and the conditions of the environment in which that offender is situated, to wit, opportunities for crime. All crimes require opportunity but not every opportunity is followed by crime. Similarly a motivated offender is necessary for the commission of a crime but not sufficient. A large part of this theory focuses on how variations in life-style or routine activities affect the opportunities for crime (Hindelang, Gottfredson, and Garofalo 1978; Cohen and Felson 1979; Cohen, Felson, and Land 1980).

Opportunity thus becomes the limiting factor that determines the outcome in environments prone to crime because the offender generally has little or no control over the conditions of the environment, and the conditions that permit particular crimes are often rare, unlikely or preventable.

Key conceptsEdit

Routine activitiesEdit

Main article: Routine activity theory

The idea that daily activities create the convergence in time and space of the three elements necessary for a crime to occur: motivated offenders, suitable targets, and the absence of capable guardians. The theory argues that available opportunities are an important component in the crime calculus. Choices in lifestyle on the part of potential victims may create or curtail crime opportunities for the motivated offender (Cohen and Felson 1979).[1]

Rational choiceEdit

The rational choice perspective tries to understand crime from the perspective of the offender. It is directly concerned with the thinking processes of offenders, how they evaluate criminal opportunities, why they decide to do one thing rather than another, and why they choose to obtain their ends by criminal and not legal means. This perspective has helped to explain why displacement does not always occur and has helped develop different ways to reduce opportunities for crime[2] (Cornish and Clarke, 1986).

Crime prevention through environmental designEdit

According to criminologist C. Ray Jeffery, crime results partly from the opportunities presented by physical environment therefor it is possible to alter the physical environment so that crime is less likely to occur. He argues that sociologists overstated the social causes of crime, and neglected both biological and environmental determinants (Jeffery 1977).

Situational crime preventionEdit

Situational Crime Prevention introduces discrete managerial and environmental changes to reduce the opportunity for crimes to occur. It is focused on the settings for crime and seeks to predict the occurrence of crime. It suggests that much offending can appropriately be viewed not simply as the product of deep social, economic, and psycho-logical causes but also as the result of deliberate choices by individuals. Therefore by making criminal action less attractive to offenders, criminal behavior can be curved (Clarke 1997).[3]

Critical developmentsEdit

Since its conception, the opportunity theory has received much analysis, criticism, and reform. Through research and experimentation the theory has been improved by several different scholars each emphasizing their own ideas. Some of those ideas are stated below:

  • A criminal act does not, however, result simply and inevitably from the presence of a criminally disposed individual. The conditions for crime must be right in terms of such situational factors as the availability of a vulnerable target and an appropriate opportunity (Clarke 229).
  • The life-style or routine activities of people alter the opportunity structure of crime, thereby explicitly influencing crime. High victimization rates of certain social categories can be explained by their choice of routine activities. Changes in routine activities in recent years (e.g., away-from-home travel, single-person households, and labor-force participation of both spouses) leave a high percentage of homes unattended during the day and night and place people in relatively unguarded environments (Cohen and Felson 1979).
  • A critical development of the crime opportunity theory is that crime itself breeds crime. One way this happens is that one person victimizes another who then victimizes a third person, and so on. This is called a Van Dijk chain, named after the Dutch criminologist who has studied victimization and helped formulate the crime opportunity theory (Dijk 1994).

Empirical supportEdit

There have been several studies conducted both inside and outside of the United States that illustrate the importance of opportunity in crime:

Suicide trendsEdit

In England and Wales during the 1960s and 1970s opportunity proved to be a strong and surprising component in suicide trends. In 1958 almost 50 percent of the nearly 5,300 people who killed themselves in England and Wales did so by domestic gas. During the 1960s, domestic gas began to be manufactured from oil rather than from coal making it less poisonous. Consequently the number of people killing themselves with gas began to decline. By the mid-1970s when natural gas had been introduced throughout most of the country, less than one percent of suicides were by domestic gas, compared with about 50 percent at the beginning of the period. Suicides did not displace wholesale to other methods. Between 1968 and 1975, total suicides dropped by about one third from nearly 5, 300 to nearly 3, 700. This was during a time of much economic uncertainty when one might have expected suicides to increase and, indeed, was generally increasing in other European countries. The reason people not turn to other methods of suicide is that all other methods have disadvantages not possessed by gas. It is dramatically more difficult to kill oneself with guns, pills overdose, or jumping out of a tall building because all these methods require courage and resolution. Lethal domestic gas, on the other hand, required little preparation and involved no pain. It is easy to understand why it was the favored method of suicide in Britain for so long. Nor is it so surprising that when the opportunity to use it was removed, the overall suicide rate declined (Clarke and Mayhew, 1988).

Motorcycle theftEdit

In Germany during the 1980s a study of motorcycle theft identified opportunity as its crucial element. The thefts of motorbikes had drastically declined from about 150,000 in 1980 to about 50,000 in 1986. This tremendous decline was the result of a new law passed in 1980 making it illegal to ride a motorbike in Germany without a helmet. The law was gradually enforced more strictly during the period and resulted in the large decline in motorcycle thefts. There is some limited evidence of displacement because between 1980 and 1983 thefts of cars went up from about 64,000 to 70,000 and the theft of bicycles also saw a noticeable increase. Altogether, it was clear that at best only a small proportion of the 100,000 motorbike thefts saved by the helmet laws were displaced to thefts of other vehicles (Mayhew et al., 1989).

Residential burglaryEdit

In the United States, a study was completed to investigate the dramatic increase in residential burglary during the 1960s and 1970s. A careful analysis by Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson (1979) showed that this increase was to a combination of two changes; temptation and opportunity. Temptation had been increased by the vast increase in light-weight electronic goods such as TV’s and VCR’s in people’s homes that could readily be sold. The opportunity to commit burglary was greatly increased as a result of far more women going out to work (Cohen and Felson 1979).

Van Dijk's chainsEdit

The criminologist Van Dijk noticed a typical pattern in the theft of bicycles that also emphasizes the role of opportunity. He observed that the victim of a bike theft would steal a bike from someone else to replace it. That victim would in turn steal a bike from another owner, and so on. Thus a single bicycle theft would have a multiplier effect, leading to several additional bicycle thefts. The chains could apply to the theft of any items with these four attributes: widely owned, necessary for daily use, easily taken, and sufficiently expensive (Dijk 1994).

Criticisms and theoretical questionsEdit

Although the crime opportunity is a useful tool for evaluating criminal environments, like any other theory there are numerous criticisms:

  • The protection given to targets by using practical measures like locks and alarms simply displace crime to some other time or place
  • No real improvements in levels of crime can be achieved without tackling root psychological and social causes
  • If opportunities for certain kinds of crime are blocked, offenders simply resort to more violence or shift their energies to completely different and perhaps more intractable kinds of crime

Crime prevention implicationsEdit

The opportunity theory has direct application to crime prevention. Concepts like problem-oriented policing, defensible space architecture, crime prevention through environmental design, and situational crime prevention seek to reduce opportunities for crime for particular kinds of targets, places, and classes of victims. Each is concerned with preventing very specific kinds of crime and none of the four attempts to improve human character. Most important, all four seek to block crime in practical, natural, and simple ways, at low social and economic costs (Cohen and Felson 1998).

Sixteen opportunity-reducing techniques have also been identified, falling under four objectives derived from rational choice theory: increasing the perceived effort of crime, increasing the perceived risks, reducing the anticipated rewards, and removing excuse for crime. Criminologist Ronald V. Clarke discusses twenty three studies that have documented the success of the use of these opportunity-reducing in his book, “Situational crime prevention: Successful case studies” (Clarke, 1997).

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • Clarke, Ronald V. (1983). “Situation Crime Prevention: It’s Theoretical Basis and Practical Scope.” Crime and Justice 4: 225-256. Web. 2 December 2012.
  • Clarke, Ronald V. and Pat Mayhew. (1988). “The British Gas Suicide Story and its Implications for Prevention”. In Michael Tonry and Norval Morris (eds.), 1988. Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol.10. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
  • Clarke, Ronald V. (ed.). (1997). Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies (Second Edition). Albany, NY: Harrow and Heston. from
  • Cohen, Lawrence E. and Marcus Felson. (1979). “Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach. American Sociological Review 44: 588-608 from
  • Cohen, Lawrence, Felson, Marcus & Land, Kenneth. (1980). Property crime rates in the united states: A macrodynamic analysis, 1947-1977; with ex ante forecasts for the mid-1980's." American Journal of Sociology 86, 90-118.
  • Cornish, Derek. B. and Ronald V. Clarke. (1986). The Reasoning Criminal. New York: Springer-Verlag. from
  • Dijk, Jan van. (1994). Understanding crime rates: On interactions between rational choices of victims and offenders. British Journal of Criminology Vol 34, Pages 105-121.
  • Felson, M. (2006). Crime and nature. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
  • Hindelang, Michael, Gottfredson, Michael & Garofalo, James. (1978). Victims of personal crime: An empirical foundation for a theory of personal victimization. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger.
  • Jeffery, C. Ray. (1977). Crime Prevention through Environmental Design. (Second Edition). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
  • Mayhew, Pat, Ronald V. Clarke and David Elliott. (1989). “Motorcycle theft, helmet legislation and displacement”. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 28: 1-8.
  • Warr, M. (2002). Companions in crime: The social aspects of criminal conduct. Cambridge University Press.

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6 Super Latino habits you don't know you're imposing on your kids

Every parent does it--transfers customs from their childhood or culture on to their kids. The problem is, some of the more old-school traditions just don't fly in this day and age and some of the very culture-specific ones also don't translate in to the general public.

Having grown up in a pretty traditional Hispanic family, I know firsthand what this is like. My parents, who were born and spent the first two decades of their lives in El Salvador, would established habits in our household that were super Latino…which my sister and I didn't even truly realize until they were either mortifyingly pointed out to us or we somehow came to the conclusion on our own once we were older.

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It's not that my parents meant to do this (or even realized they were) or that my sister and I were embarrassed of our background, but when you're a young kid, being asked what the heck you're doing (or saying or eating) is like the end-all, be-all of humiliation. Now, of course, we all look back on those silly incidents and laugh--which is exactly why I thought they were worth sharing! So without further ado, here are 6 super Latino habits you didn't even realize you were imposing on your kids:

  1. Eating beans anywhere at any given time of the day. My mom used to send my sister to school with beans as part of her lunch. This, of course, would make all the other kid's noses wrinkle in disgust and say "Ewww, what are you eating?!"…which in turn would cause my poor dear sis endless embarrassment.  After a few incidents with her coming home from school and wailing about the same story, Mom started sticking to turkey sandwiches--a habit that luckily remained throughout my time at school. Not that it makes a difference now…I love beans. I'm probably eating them as you read this.
  2. Saying certain words only in Spanish.  Early on, my parents probably just did this because they didn't know or were unsure of the right way to say particular phrases in English, but it became a habit which was then passed on to me. For the first few years of my life, I thought the only way to describe someone being bratty and temperamental was by calling them "caprichoso."
  3. Saying certain English words with a strong Spanish accent. My parents used to roll their "r's" in funny places, which I would obviously then do too. On the upside, while I was discovering that this wasn't an altogether normal habit, I also discovered that rolling your tongue is actually not something most people can do. Yay for random, obscure and mostly useless talents!
  4. Starting a sentence in English and ending in Spanish or vice versa. Do you understand lo que estoy diciendo? Como que you don't get it?
  5. Assuming that every family party has enough people to form a small marching band, enough food to provide a family of 5 for several weeks, and enough alcohol to knock out at least three 200+lb men. Actually, I still don't understand why that isn't always the case.
  6. Assuming every mom is an amazing cook that can stir up an amazing dinner at any moment's notice. Without a recipe.  You could give my mother a shoebox and she'd find a way to make into a delicious meal. My abuela is an incredibly gifted baker and my aunts also all have specialty dishes. When it comes time for a dinner or a reunion, they all split cooking duties. How was I supposed to know every kid wasn't as lucky?!

What cultural habits are you passing on to your kids? Tell us in the comments below!

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on May 29, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Very funny!! I still get strange looks when I start my morning with refried beans on toast. What?! It's better than peanut butter. :0)
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Me, Me, Me

Emotional reactions.

I have them. You have them. They have them. We all have them.

Moving past the emotion, and seeing the real issue is difficult. For example, I typically have a negative emotional reaction when women discuss "street harassment."

Some men might not know that term. It's the way some women describe the aggressive sexual advances made by men in public. It can range from the simple "Hey, baby you looking good" to "Bitch, you think you better than me?"

Most men pay very little attention to this behavior, and even when we do, we don't deem it harassment. I know I haven't. It was only after listening to women describe the fear and pain these type of encounters brought them that I even considered the term. Sure, I knew that some cats crossed the line and disrespected girls, but I never understood exactly how often it happens, and the way the mere threat of it happening can impact the lives of women. Hearing some of the stories told by women was an eye opener, to say the least.

But, even with my eyes opened, my heart still hasn't changed enough. See, I feel terrible that women feel scared, unsafe and objectified. I don't want men to behave like that. Yet, when I hear women call it harassment, I get defensive. I get angry, and find myself, inside my head, trying to figure out ways to minimize the stories these women are telling. I downplay the threat of violence, I rationalize the disrespect. It all happens in my head, but it still happens.

And I've finally figured out why.

It's about me. I am a man. I objectify women. Since I'm married, I don't try to pick up strangers on the street, but I still examine their body parts with interest. I assess them for sexual attractiveness, and enjoy appreciating their shape. I see this as normal acceptable behavior. I see men trying to get close to them and their shapes as normal, acceptable behavior. While I disagree with the methods, I don't disagree with the mindset.

It makes sense to me.

When I came to this realization, it was easy for me to see why I get defensive. Even though I don't approach women, when I see condemnations of that behavior, I take them as condemnations of me. Even though I can see the larger problem I still get upset at what I consider a condemnation of me because it conflicts with my belief that I'm a "good guy." I know that the women who are sharing their stories are justifiably angry, but since I don't think I deserve their anger, I resent them for it.

I make it all about me.

But, it's not. I only understood this when I substituted "racial harassment" for "street harassment" and began to consider the issue from that angle. I thought about the attitudes of police officers, business owners and regular folks when they see a young black male.

I made it about me, but this time I put myself in the shoes of a group that's been mistreated and disrespected and I asked myself "How would you feel? Would you be kind? Would you be sweet? Would you care about finding terms that make things nicer for folks who look like your oppressor?"

Or would I just want to express my rage, my disgust and my frustration? Would I expect those people who really want to help me to be able to see past those inarticulate emotions to the truth behind them?

How can I have those expectations of others, and not expect them to have those same expectations of me?

LisaMJ said...

It takes a "Big Man" to try to put himself in someone else's shoes like that, even after initally not getting it. As always, thank you for being so thoughtful, introspective and for putting it into words so well.

Sara said...

Got here from the Racialicious street harassment post. I just wanted to say thank you for your honest and thoughtful response. Also, this helps me to understand what's going on in the minds of guys who act like I'm a feminazi when I try to tell them about how just doing my daily business can be a scary experience, or how tired I get of having to cuss someone out when I just want to have a nice afternoon and run my errands. Thanks again for your post.

Fenriswolf said...

Thank you for this. It's hard to get outside yourself and try and erase your own bias, but something everyone needs to do more, and I try and always do.

seitzk said...

Really appreciated this piece of writing.

tonisjadine said...

Nicely done - thanks for sharing your process here. I haven't read your blog before, but I hope you share your wisdom with young men out there. Lots of them could use your perspective.

Blaque Ink said...

I wrote a blog similar to this. I mentioned that like whites have privileges above other groups, especially blacks, I, as a man, have privileges over women. To go even further as a black man I have privileges over black women.

I felt defensive when I discovered that I have privileges over my sisters. I figured how can an oppressed group have privileges? The truth is that we do, and it must be acknowledged. It was born from the mindset of being "naturally" superior to women. Therefore, men will believe that a woman's mind and heart mean very little, but her body is valuable (enough) for men to use as he pleases.

And that isn't right.

Even as a good man like myself, my perceptions on morality are still warped by the privileges I have over women. Despite who I am, I must realize that women are still suffering from injustices due to a society of male dominance which created privileges in its wake. Privileges blind those from the reality others live in.

Renee said...

I really appreciate this post because I have too often seen street harassment minimized or explained away by men except when it comes to a woman that they care about.

lifelearner said...

As always you hit the nail on its head. Thanks for another thought-provoking post.

Blackgirlinmaine said...

This is a brave piece and truly makes you a big man for having the wherewithal to look deep inside yourself.

Big Man said...

I don't think it was that "big."
Seriously, it's something all of us should do in every situation. I was actually pretty ashamed of my reaction to the complaints about street harassment. I was trying to rationalize and minimize it, even though I know people who deal with all the time.
I finally had to understand that it happens, even if I don't notice or see it, and it's quite scary for many people.
It was only hard to accept becauase I didn't really want to believe it. The evidence was all there.

jon said...

Great post. I really like the way you describe mentally putting yourself in the position of the group that's being mistreated. t's so important for guys to weigh in on this issue ... thanks for taking the time! And yes, it is "big".

Eli said...

What a great post. I'm a white woman and recently went through this process in the other direction...I experience street harassment almost daily where I live and it was/is frustrating to know that despite their best efforts to understand and sympathize, many of my male friends just *don't see* what I and many other women deal with all the time -- and *don't see* how some of their behavior exists on the same continuum as that of the harassers and thus could be perceived as threatening. It was truly sobering the first time I thought about racial harassment, as you say, in those same terms and realized that there are whole spectrums of threatening behavior and interactions experienced my non-white people that I just *don't see* and most likely participate in. I'm now trying to hear these stories in the same way that I hope that men will hear mine.

Big Man said...

Exactly Eli.
That's exactly how it works for me. Whenever I'm having trouble grasping someone else's pain or complaint, I try to turn their complaint into something more personal to me, then assess my feelings.
It typically works.

Anonymous said...

Defending cat-calling or street harassment isn't something most men would do, I don't think. I think you've got to be a pretty bad and aggressive objectifier to do so at all. I think it's funny how black feminists expect so little out of black men and so much out of every other kind of men. Expecting men not to embarrass and intimidate women on the street is not a lot to ask. Women should never be made to feel intimidated by men wanting to get in their pants. Enough with the rape culture.

Big Man said...

Nearly every man I have ever met has made a lascivious comment to a strange woman on the street, in the club or in some other public setting. And the vast majority of them rarely see anything wrong with it.
You could argue that I need to change my circles, and I would argue that my circles are plenty wide.

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