Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <7789@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 16:23:32 GMT
References: <656@crk56.bnr.ca> <1989Dec20.122639.1563@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <25900FAC.1DA4@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <25900FAC.1DA4@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>In article <1989Dec20.122639.1563@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:
>>There's a law which says that stores cannot be open on Sundays (with certain
>>exceptions). The police are merely enforcing that law. Don't blame them for
>>doing their jobs.

>That's not the point. There are lots of laws that get broken each day,
>and the politicians (and ranking policemen) get to selectively determine
>how to allocate their limited enforcement mechanisms. Each day they make
>judgements that some laws need to be enforced more than others.

   Lots of laws may be broken, but how many other criminals advertise
the fact that they are breaking the law.  (I can only think of one and
will not mention the name to avoid firing up an even more controversial
issue).  Police and society can not afford to ignore people would flaunt
the law.  The system quickly loses all respect (what's left of it) when
broken laws are ignored.
   Many stores who would like to be open on Sundays only want to do so
legally.  If a few people break the law and get away with it, then
essentially anarchy takes over.  Everyone is forced to break the law to
remain competitive.  Many retailers don't want to see this situation.
   As far as drug trafficers, etc go, we are losing one police officer 
for one day of the week to enforcement of this law in most cities.  The 
enforcement officer placed in charge of this is not of detective status
and not likely to be a major player in an 'investigation.'  That same officer
is walking around in a downtown area of the city and would be available for
other emergency duties if required.  Doesn't seem very unreasonable to me.

   By the way, Evan is the only pro-Sunday shopper who has stated that he
is willing for all of society to adopt working Sundays.  I would certainly
be more willing to change my viewpoint if others would honestly do the
same.

 Stewart

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