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Originally Posted by Taggy
I was'nt offering an excuse...i was giving a reason.
Your rather negative view about there not being any point in holding a petition against something with which one disagrees is rather defeatist and not very democratic! As you will see the thread was started with a view to finding out which Location a centre such as this should be located in, bearing in mind the options available...not that NO unit should be provided anywhere.
Best Regards - Taggy
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I voted the location, but someone mentioned that it shouldn't be opened and that the money should go to providing activities for disabled children, hence my comments.
I'd give you my best regards but I only lie for my personal gain, not politeness.
I didn't say disallow petitions, otherwise it would be fair to say I was being undemocratic. As for being defeatist, the number of signatures needed to stop such a thing would need to be huge really and I don't think they'll be gotten, but at the same time I wasn't say don't bother trying, just airing my opinion that it is pointless as it is very likely to go ahead regardless as it is a big issue and not one that should be ignored just because a few hundred people don't want to face the fact that people are suffering from drug addictions in their precious town.
It is easy to call drug addicts scum, but when they see the pregnant teenager going in for her treatment and see how sickly she looks, it becomes much harder to treat them all like criminals.