At 1:32 AM -0500 12/11/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:12:23PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
Quite. And the specter of the Florida legislature selecting a new set of
electors are providing one of the best civics educations citizens young and
old have had this century. Its really quite healthy to have the myth of
democracy we were all taught in grade school laid bare by the reality of a
conservative and plain reading of the Constitution by some of the best and
brightest.
Heh. For every Democrat (and perhaps some Republicans) who goes on TV
and proudly proclaims this perpetual election as a good thing because
it buttresses our civics knowledge, I want to ask: Why don't we
encourage the president, say, to commit a felony? The subsequent
prosecution and conviction would be fascinating to observe and would
*really* educate America's children.
Yes, the treatment Bill received after raping Juanita Brodderick was
indeed instructive.
As was the punishment he received for lying under oath, suborning
perjury, tampering with evidence, and (very probably) having
witnesses in his scandals killed.
(While not _all_ of the several dozen people on the Bill Hit List
were victims of foul play, I expect many were. And about 10 standard
deviations' worth of deaths as compared to the expected number around
other men of similar age
--Tim May
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