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Walter E. Williams: Getting back our liberties
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 12/17/2003 12:40:43 AM PST by JohnHuang2

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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

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1 posted on 12/17/2003 12:40:44 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
BUMP

Walter Williams is the best.
2 posted on 12/17/2003 12:43:04 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: JohnHuang2
I want my own island...run under a clearly worded constitution similar to the US...with harsh penalties for politicians who write, sponsor, or vote for an unconstitutional law.

Now, where did that winning lottery ticket go to...
3 posted on 12/17/2003 12:50:23 AM PST by flashbunny (The constitution doesn't protect only the things you approve of.)
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To: Lancey Howard
we have no such obligation to have Congress take the earnings of one American and give them to another American. Forcing one American to serve the purposes of another is one way slavery can be defined.

And we think we are free. Right. Try NOT paying and you will see how free we are!

4 posted on 12/17/2003 12:52:46 AM PST by ovrtaxt ( http://www.fairtax.org * Centrist Republicans are the semi-colons of the political keyboard.)
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To: JohnHuang2
go our own way just as our Founders did in 1776.

Actually, it would be much more similar to (ahem...) 1861. And that worked out great, didn't it?


5 posted on 12/17/2003 1:11:15 AM PST by MrJingles ("Democracy is doomed once the majority realizes that it controls the public treasury." - - Voltaire)
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To: flashbunny
...with harsh penalties for politicians who write, sponsor, or vote for an unconstitutional law.

Question...
If the government is willing to ignore certain parts of your Constitution, why would they respect the portion that punishes them for such an act? Who's going to punish them, anyway?


6 posted on 12/17/2003 1:17:14 AM PST by MrJingles ("Democracy is doomed once the majority realizes that it controls the public treasury." - - Voltaire)
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Dr. Williams is one of the greatest intellects mankind ever produced. He is the greatest intellect of the Twentieth Century and by far, the greatest intellect alive today.
7 posted on 12/17/2003 1:31:26 AM PST by SUSSA
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Is that you, Walter?
8 posted on 12/17/2003 1:34:12 AM PST by ovrtaxt ( http://www.fairtax.org * Centrist Republicans are the semi-colons of the political keyboard.)
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BUMP for Dr. Walter E. Williams, and the Free State thing is great, but New Hampshire is too cold, and they don't have any beaches either.
9 posted on 12/17/2003 2:47:01 AM PST by putupon ("Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!"-Presidente Jorge Dubya Arbusto)
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To: JohnHuang2
What a dumb article.
10 posted on 12/17/2003 4:26:34 AM PST by Huck
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To: SUSSA
I would put Thomas Sowell in his company.
11 posted on 12/17/2003 5:48:10 AM PST by sauropod ("Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.")
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To: JohnHuang2
Most people in this country wouldn't know what liberty was if it walked up and bit them in the ass. That includes the "Live Free or Die" folks.
12 posted on 12/17/2003 6:56:37 AM PST by agitator (Ok, mic check...line one...)
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The history of the Court, not to mention last week's decision on the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform that attacks free speech, is proof that Jefferson was right and Alexander Hamilton wrong.

With apologies to the Kennedy brothers, the South was right. The justices are, and have been, out of control. At least the state of Georgia once refused to comply with their idiotic decisions.

13 posted on 12/17/2003 7:08:21 AM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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Dr. Williams is right as rain, as usual.



14 posted on 12/17/2003 7:12:13 AM PST by Eris
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To: putupon
New Hampshire does have beaches....... but those winters!
15 posted on 12/17/2003 7:12:19 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: SUSSA
I will second that notion. Walter Williams should be the poster child for what is a great American.
16 posted on 12/17/2003 7:14:49 AM PST by MizzouTigerRepublican (82nd ABN Gulf war vet)
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To: agitator
"Most people in this country wouldn't know what liberty was if it walked up and bit them in the ass"

And therein lies the source of the problem which is not even recognized as a problem by most people and for the same reason.
17 posted on 12/17/2003 7:19:22 AM PST by RipSawyer (Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
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To: SUSSA
Walter Williams has always been one of my favorites. Merry Christmas, John!
18 posted on 12/17/2003 7:35:42 AM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: JohnHuang2
What a nut! This guy actually thinks that he ought to be allowed to be free!

< /sarcasm>

19 posted on 12/17/2003 7:47:52 AM PST by Protagoras (Vote Republican, we're not as bad as the other guys.)
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To: MrJingles
Actually, it would be much more similar to (ahem...) 1861. And that worked out great, didn't it?

It worked out the way it did because of the way it was handled, not because the idea was wrong.

20 posted on 12/17/2003 7:49:45 AM PST by Protagoras (Vote Republican, we're not as bad as the other guys.)
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