Hi Platt, I hope your metaphysics aren't as twisted as your spelling!
Joe On 3/25/09 5:50 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/
