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- From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.175844.12286@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
- Followup-To: misc.legal
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- References: <1992Sep2.171729.14243@ms.uky.edu> <1992Sep3.005923.22443@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:58:44 GMT
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- [note followup directed to misc.legal]
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- In article <1992Sep3.005923.22443@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> mls@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (mike.siemon) writes:
- >> Fortunately there is the second amendment of the Bill of Rights.
-
- Unfortunately, Lincoln ignored the bill anyway.
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- >Utterly useless if the dictator comes to power with quasi-fascist
- >gun-toters as his storm troopers. I suppose one could hold out the
- >"hope" that the urban mob might be opposed to a rural-right takeover,
- >but that is hardly what I regard as decent checks & balances.
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- As a foreign observer of the US, I see that the DEA and various
- police agencies acquiring a lot of power. It is debatable whether
- the German SS had more power then (legal or otherwise). Read
- misc.legal for a while to see the powers that are being granted
- to the police type agencies.
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