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Topic: Battling bottle ban in Concord |
Battling bottle ban in Concord
Boston Herald, by Richard Weir
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/6/2013 2:42:50 PM
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| A new shot has been fired in the battle in Concord over the plastic water bottle ban, with opponents now vowing to repeal the controversial law — considered the first of its kind in the nation — that went into effect Tuesday. “People should have the freedom to buy a legal product in the town they live in,” contends Robin Garrison, who has spearheaded a group called Concord Residents for Consumer Choice that hopes to bring single-serve plastic water bottles under 1 liter back to stores in town. “It should not be outlawed.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 1/6/2013 2:46:03 PM (No. 9101816)
Next they will be telling people, how big of a house they can buy, or type of car they drive...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/6/2013 2:56:10 PM (No. 9101823)
Everyone should have a minimum 2 week supply of food and water in the event of an emergency.
I have cases of bottled water and food storage, and continue to add to it.
In Concord, they can stand in line and wait for FEMA, I guess.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
formerNYer, 1/6/2013 3:02:05 PM (No. 9101830)
“People should have the freedom to buy a legal product in the town they live in,”
I wonder if he´s a gun control advocate?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/6/2013 3:09:45 PM (No. 9101838)
Did this 85 YO nut job provide copious photos of the "floating islands"?
How can a LAW be passed without proof, because I guarantee you, there are NOT floating plastic islands.
If this nut wants a cause, she can ban the floating debris caused by Nature..called a tsunami in Japan.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 1/6/2013 3:20:30 PM (No. 9101848)
Like banning plastic bottles in one small city is going to save the planet. Stupid ideas cause more pollution than anything else.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 1/6/2013 3:24:16 PM (No. 9101851)
I think people are crazy to spend money on bottled water unless it´s an occasional true mineral water with dinner, but I sympathize with the old woman in a way. I doubt there are any "floating islands" of bottles, but people these days are slobs and just throw their bottles anywhere, and I assume they take forever to disintegrate. Maybe there should simply be a $1 deposit required on bottles of any kind, glass or plastic. That would help insure they wouldn´t turn up on the roadside or be left on the beach. When I was a little boy and could get a couple of cents back from A&P for bottles believe me I kept my neighborhood picked clean.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/6/2013 3:45:14 PM (No. 9101876)
Ah, yes. Remove all consequences for uncivil behavior, then before long, the heavy hand of the law "must" fall on innocent and guilty alike. But it has the "advantage" of stoking the Leftists´ lust for control, control, control.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
clw54, 1/6/2013 3:53:18 PM (No. 9101884)
“It took three years to get the (ban) and I’m going to fight to keep it,” said Hill. “I’m 85, but I’m mean.”
You´re also stupid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffreyabigail, 1/6/2013 5:38:51 PM (No. 9102007)
What happened to "Live Free or Die?"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 1/6/2013 5:49:10 PM (No. 9102010)
“People should have the freedom to buy a legal product in the town they live in,”
I´m sure that ´Concord Residents for Consumer Choice´ believe that principle would also apply to the purchase of guns, tobacco products and every other item not prohibited by the US Constitution.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/6/2013 7:23:38 PM (No. 9102114)
#9: Obama´s putting that aphorism into effect across the country. Well, the definition is a little different. "Live free" for Obama, the Left, and for the takers means "live on ´free´ money." And of course, implicitly, without ´free´ [read: our] money the takers die, having neither resources, skills, nor initiative.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
john56, 1/6/2013 7:31:15 PM (No. 9102132)
This gets me. We can´t have sugary soft drinks, foods with transfat oils, single serve bottles, or God forbid ... a cigarette!
But hey, we should have easily available "medical marijuana" available to smoke at will.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/6/2013 11:09:45 PM (No. 9102350)
#9, that´s for Concord, New Hampshire. This is Concord, Massachusetts, where infringements on freedom for the common good are just that: common.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/7/2013 1:48:03 AM (No. 9102466)
Let´s put the plastic guy out of business too.
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