[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

Richard Langis richard.langis at sun.com
Wed Mar 27 22:25:43 UTC 2002


Russ Johnson wrote:

> 
> Speaking of what's fair... How about this:
> 
> In today's Oregonian, there was an article that said the Supreme Court
> had upheld the rights of a Public Housing Administrator to evict an
> entire family if any one used illegal drugs, on or off the property. No
> notification needed. 
> 
> "Civil rights activists" are up in arms because this creates a double
> standard. Poor people depend on public housing... 
> 
> Seems to me that the double standard is that only poor people can live
> in public housing... 


Personally, I think this is entirely fair.  If these people have enough money 
to buy drugs in the first place, perhaps they're spending the money they DO 
have in the wrong manner.  That shit ain't cheap - which is why there's a 
market for it in the first place.

If a family is *actually* poor, and not simply 'living off the system', then 
there shouldn't be any problems with said Administrator's complaint.



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