Hi Platt, Are you saying that there is no right to privacy? I think "pursuit of happiness" is the liberal idea that we al.l get to pursue our own idea of the good so long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's and that this ammounts to a limited right to privacy among others.
Best, Steve On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Platt Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron - > >> The ninth and tenth amendments were included to make absolutely sure there >> was no misunderstanding about the limited powers the Constitution grants >> to the federal government. >> Amendment IX: >> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be >> construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. >> Amendment X: >> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor >> prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, >> or to the people. >> Now, where's the right to privacy? >> It is clearly in those two amendments. > > Usually I agree with Harry Browne, but not in this case. Amendment X talks > about powers, not rights. Amendment IX is so vague as to allow reading into > whatever rights someone thinks people ought to have, like the right to a > free lunch and a warm bed. > > But Browne is certainly right about education. "Perhaps the greatest > mistake made in American history was in allowing government to educate our > children." We are now witnessing the deplorable results. That Obozo wants > to throw more money at a failing system would be laughable if it wasn't so > criminally wasteful, like the rest of his multi-trillion dollar > boondoggles. > > Platt > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
