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If you don't believe that free people, armed with the truth, can make good decisions for themselves, then our Republic is as good as dead.

117 posted on 01/05/2004 10:28:45 AM PST by dcwusmc ("The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)

118 posted on 01/05/2004 10:42:41 AM PST by clamper1797 (Conservative by nature ... Republican in Spirit ... Patriot by Heart ... and Anti Liberal BY GOD)

If you don't believe that free people, armed with the truth, can make good decisions for themselves, then our Republic is as good as dead.

That's kinda how I feel - 'laws' are for keeping the 'stupids' (literally: the stupid people) alive and out of harms way (for the most part).

Take most of your local ordinances, building codes, state statutes etc. - regulations, for the most part that dictate what *not* to do as well as what *to* do in a vast and growing number of situations that a knowledgeable/smart/informed person has no trouble 'navigating' by himself successfully ...