mutilated misquotes from David A. Bandel's 1 Oct 2004 classic prose may follow:
" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- " Hash: SHA1 " " Regurgitating the prose of Alma J Wetzker Alma J Wetzker " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:22:21 -0500: " " [snip] " | " |Isn't the price of freedom constant vigilance? The flip side of my " |starting question is, When do laws for my protection unduly restrict my " |freedom? There is a judgment call involved. We may not agree on where " |the line is, but we agree there is a line. Thanks for pointing this " |out. " " Vigilance yes. But the line has been crossed a number of times, the " most heinous violation being this nazi "Homeland Security" crap. I " didn't spend 20 years of my life in the military so my children could " grow up in a police state. But this really doesn't bear on the original On the contrary, I think it does. Constant and unremitting surveillance by government order of how one uses an item of one's property seems to me to take us at least one step closer to that police state you mention. " poster's note. And making "copies" of money, no matter how fake looking " they are (even black and white), is illegal. Has been for a long time. I doubt that the above statement is completely correct. Nor is copying money the issue anyhow, as I see it. " This was unnecessary. Just start arresting and fining/jailing offenders " and it will stop. They do and it doesn't. The territory being highlighted by, say, a photocopier programmed to refuse to copy money is moral quicksand at best. Presumed innocent until proven guilty and all that sort of quaint anachronism. " Oh yes, and let's ditch this idiotic Homeland Stupidity Organization " (I'd say before it gets out of control, but it was born out of control). R -- http://www.quen.net "Gold needs no endorsement, it can be tested with scales and acids. The recipient of gold does not have to trust the government stamp upon it, if he does not trust the government that stamped it. No act of faith is called for when gold is used in payments, and no compulsion is required." -Benjamin M. Anderson _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub/Pause/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
