"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in message
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From: dave weil
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:13:23 -0600

They have power to vote fro whom they like but they are not supposed to
have
the right to violate the rights of others. That's why we have a
Consititution.

Unless you're violating their rights on your private property, which is
(of course) OK.

It is? Did I miss a meeting? In the real world people's right aren't
subject to the whim of other people. If you grant someone permission to
trespass they still have the same rights as before.

Didn't work for almost two centuries, even though it was amended a
century into "the grand experiment".

Where was the marketplace during that time?

Um, buying and selling slaves for a lot of it, who were "private
property" at that time.

It was a policy that was in place in most countries of the world at one time
or another, so there's shame enough to go around. That we took so long and
fought a war that was inpart because of slavery is not to our credit, but we
have since made slavery illegal.

It's a good thing that a bloody Civil War, no doubt initiated by the
marketplace, helped put an end to the practice.

At least partly true.

Man, this nyob is about as sharp as a rotting log, isn't he?

Eye of the beholder. How sharp is a person who thinks that it's OK to steal
property to run a government?