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To: Boogieman

I disagree. Trump needs to do this.
If he does not they will surely abuse their power
to destroy him.

The authors of the First Amendment could not have foreseen the day when the technical means to exercise it would fall almost exclusively into the hands of private corporations.

Let alone those run by partisan leftist hacks with a zillion axes to grind.


11 posted on 12/27/2016 11:05:52 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“The authors of the First Amendment could not have foreseen the day when the technical means to...”

Sounds like a very familiar liberal argument.

Just replace First Amendment with Second Amendment.

No thank you.


14 posted on 12/27/2016 11:20:55 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“The authors of the First Amendment could not have foreseen the day when the technical means to exercise it would fall almost exclusively into the hands of private corporations.”

They don’t, you’re just engaging in hyperbole to support an unsupportable position.


15 posted on 12/27/2016 11:22:59 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The authors of the First Amendment could not have foreseen the day when

Change First to Second and you've got the gun-grabbers' favorite argument for flushing inconvenient parts of the Constitution.

Nuts to that.

16 posted on 12/27/2016 11:23:31 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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