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The wrong way to power
stoptheaclu.com ^ | 08/03/2010 | Roger E. Skoff

Posted on 08/03/2010 9:05:31 AM PDT by In Bold Colors

Our country has a long history of acting on the wrong issue to pass the wrong law: We've passed drug laws out of fear that junkies might steal our television sets; we've passed still more laws out of sheer moral outrage after incidents like Columbine, when there were literally hundreds of local, state, and federal laws directly applicable and already on the books; we've passed laws for no reason at all ecept that politicians needed to show that they were "on the job", actually doing something. Until recently it was possible to......

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1 posted on 08/03/2010 9:05:36 AM PDT by In Bold Colors
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To: In Bold Colors
Until recently it was possible to.....(Excerpt)

Why the excerpt? Is there bad language? Offensive images?

2 posted on 08/03/2010 10:07:27 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: humblegunner; In Bold Colors

It astounds me that someone has a forum to say what they like, and then given that chance, they truncate. It’s like “Meteor about to hit earth! News at 11.”

Buddy, if you got a message, just post it. NO ONE goes to blogs.


3 posted on 08/03/2010 10:10:04 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (A woman is like an artichoke; you have to do a bit of work to get to her heart ~Insp. Clouseau)
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