On Jul 18, 10:15=A0pm, Stuffed Tiger <No...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:16:30 -0700 (PDT), good...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> >This is actually just *your* philosophy. =A0In practice you have only
> >the rights the government recognizes. =A0Even if the 9th and 10th
> >Amendments suggest that all other rights are inherent in you, it
> >doesn't matter unless the Supreme Court recognizes them - or some
> >lesser court judge agrees with you, and even then the prosecutor can
> >appeal up to the Supreme Court.
>
> The Supreme Court weighed in against President Andrew Jackson's
> mistreatment of Native Americans in the US SouthEast. He ignored the
> Court, saying they should send their own army if they wanted things
> done differently. This was not done in isolation but in the context of
> racism, setting the people of Georgia up for their own devastation in
> the American Civil War. Self-interest needs not to be stupid foolish.
>
> What actually matters is what the people won't let the government get
> away with. If people are not educated, paying attention and smart
> enough in the way things actually work in the World, then might makes
> right. When you have an educated military dedicated to the people and
> the Constitution, multiple levels of government via States, counties,
> regions, cities, a free economy and a free people acting with strength
> on their own behalf, then a Republic might survive.
but a republic still is not going to make you perverts happy....those
republics don allow crotch exposing to little kids.....jz
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