At 07:28 PM 7/25/00 -0700, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>At 11:38 -0400 7/25/00, David Honig wrote:
>>At 12:32 AM 7/25/00 -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>>>were unconstitutional. Another way of putting this would be for the
>>>government to outlaw brushing ones teeth.
>>
>>Simple. Outlaw possession of toothbrushes. Intercept at customs.
>>Teach children in public schools that clean teeth are bad. Make
>>the teaching of dental hygene or dentifrice manufacture illegal.
>
>No, no, the activity is illegal, not the tools. Your free to
>purchase toothbrushes where ever you like (after all toothbrushes are
>a common cleaning instrument.
Although it used to take a constitutional amendment to ban mere
possession of something, e.g. ethanol, that is no longer the de facto case
in the US.
Consider that even possession of mere bits is outlawed.
