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To: El Gato
True, but the bill also contained lots of good stuff.


And Mussolini made the trains run on time. Tyranny, when properly executed, is popular.

How much of your liberties, and the future of our free republic, are you willing to give up for "good stuff"?
63 posted on 11/06/2003 8:27:37 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed
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To: Beelzebubba
How much of your liberties, and the future of our free republic, are you willing to give up for "good stuff"?

None at all. The point was that the "bad stuff" was slipped in at the last minute, no one knew for sure what it meant, and Reagan probably didn't know it was in there. He did know about the good stuff, since getting that was the whole point of the bill in the first place. Sort of like them trying to slip the "gun show loophole" closure and even the AW ban renewal into the legislation that would prevent the nuisance lawsuits against gun makers whose products are missued by "consumers", (Most of which stole the product anyway, or bought it from someone who did). We caught them this time ahead of time. In the case of the FOPA, it was literraly the last minute and we didn't catch the guy in time to prevent the inclusion of the machine gun ban into the law.

I don't think we can blame Reagan for that, which is all I'm trying to say.

71 posted on 11/07/2003 9:35:43 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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