Amitai Etzioni, professor of international relations at The George Washington University and the author of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2007), says people deserve basic security before civil liberties.
Security First is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Security First is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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the professor's arguments might be worth entertaining if the US ever actually had been interested in promoting democracy rather than security. Since that's not the case I am not sure what planet this guy is from....name one example, please??
Hey,
I am so sick of these Manhattan and Brooklyn people complaining about noise. Hey folks you chose to live in a vibrant place with a rich nightlife and people bustling about.
If its too noisy.. MOVE!
Kansas is nice and quiet.
What about bus brakes? They screech so loudly that it surely causes hearing damage to those on the sidewalk. I heard they are investing in video cameras on buses -- how about just starting by greasing the wheels?
I've read that prenatal noise exposure determines how comfortable a person is with noise in life, and whether they need noise or quiet to sleep at night. One native New Yorker who grew up in a noisy neighborhood says she can sleep through anything. I grew up in the country, and I need quiet to sleep. It's just important to consider that everyone has different comfort levels.
As someone who witnesses daily infractions of driving, driving-while-using-cellphones, littering and dog-pooping laws, I have absolutely no confidence that another quality-of-life issue will be seriously enforced by our authorities.
Tom
PS: Yes, the church noise is a super-problem, too!!!!
I think it takes a naive person to haphazardly link loud noises to crime. This isn't a good reason for police to enforce these restrictions. If anything, this opens the door for police harassment cases in the future, and frivolous disputes over decibel levels.
Does the new code address the excessive noise of city buses or sirens?
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