On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Brian Loe wrote: > Quite frankly, one of the good ideas that was batted around > back-in-the-day was that only land owners have a vote. Not completely > unreasonable, IMHO. > > Also, the original wording was, "life, liberty and property" - > property, after all, being happiness. > > But, for what its worth, they still rape this phrase today. A Mexican, > here legally or not, is still made by his maker and the owner of these > same rights. The argument then becomes whether or not our Constitution > covers them. So, for instance, I would have already made Iraq and > Afghanistan a state or protectorate of the U.S. - with all of those > rights, to include our Constitution.
We tried that, called it "The British Empire". They didn't like it then, they won't like it now. > Certainly wouldn't have done any > worse...and there's a good argument that things might be better. > > On 7/7/07, Dude VanWinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "all white male christan landowners are endowed//" You have to remember that all this ""Declaration of Independence stuff was just war propaganda. I doubt if anyone meant it to be taken seriously. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
