Re: 9th Amendment: a dead letter?

"GeekBoy" <geek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Deadrat" <a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "GeekBoy" <geek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Larry" <x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "GeekBoy" <geek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Would be a bit difficult if, for example, General Praeteus decided
>>>>> to move
>>>>> the next US election up a few months as himself being only
>>>>> candidate.
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>>>> You think he could make that decision, with any real effect?
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>>> Yes, as he has the mechanisms to do it if he really wanted to.
>>> Dictators love your type of sheep like thinking.
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>> The mechanisms exist.  (Read Sinclair Lewis' _It Can't Happen Here_.)
>> But there's no evidence that Petraeus (let's at least spell his name
>> correctly) or at any other officer of the US sworn to uphold the
>> Constitution has the slightest inclination to use those mechanisms.
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> That is why I wrote "for example" 

As in, "Picking up hot girls in bars would be a bit less difficult if, for

example, I was young, rich, and handsome"?