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Heartland Patriot wrote:One of the reasons that these OC threads turn bad is because while some folks believe that OC simply isn't prudent, shall we say, others are actually AFRAID of it and do whatever they can to disrupt the discussion.

I think we actually have a miscommunication here. I think a large number of the locked threads on OC are done so because some posters in those threads are trying to get become a cool-kid in the Texas OC crowd by getting banned here. We comments from the TxOC cool-kid wannabes and we see comments from the CC NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) which tend to feed off each other and in the end do more harm than good for everyone. The TxOC cool-kids claim all of us on here are anti-OC but only a small number actually are. Meanwhile a large number of folks on here (I myself keep falling into this group) tend to get the impression that the TxOC crowd are nothing but a group of loud mouth bomb throwers who want attention when in actuallity only a small number are. I am all up for a good debate on When/Where/Who/How and Why OC should be legalized but the radicals on both sides of the debate will do their best to disrupt said debate. With that said I guess I will go renew my "Elitist" status and say that OC isn't a high priority for me, its on the list but I have other things I feel are more important. For the record I will not appose a good bill that doesn't hurt other efforts and progress but I will appose a bad bill that does. If we get OC then I am all for it, although I probably will do so only rarely.