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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -
> slaveryware)
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> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:41:36PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
>
> > Article 1 - Free exercise of religion: Lots of people every day.


> Please give some example from news sources of people today who have to
> go to court to enforce those freedoms.  Not very many, is it?
> Seems
> pretty theoretical to me.


No one goes to court to "enforce" freedoms, it is the job of the courts, and
ultimately, the U.S. Supreme court, to determine whether or not a right
delineated in the constitution has been violated. I don't consider Supreme
court rulings to be theoretical. OTOH, people exercise their constitutional
rights such as freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms, each and
every day, there is nothing theoretical about that either, so sorry, I don't
understand your point.

I'll just say again that I think to equate open source with the freedoms
granted by the constitution is hyperbolic, silly, and tends to somewhat
trivialize the true definition of freedom.

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Regards
Bob Young


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