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To: little jeremiah

Isn't the answer, though, to fight for a Constitutional return to local control (including the right for localities, not the state, to define obscenity? Otherwise you're conceding their argument that the feds have the legitimate power to define obscenity for all of us, and in the process, selling out the Constitution in the process. I think it's a bad, unprincipled and ultimately futile tactic.


156 posted on 10/10/2005 10:34:08 PM PDT by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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To: ellery

My honest answer is that both options are too late. The fedgov is already strangulating all of us. It's like an octopus with thousands of poisonous arms. Meanwhile, citizenry have little recourse locally, since state gov'ts are often notorious for being worse blackguards than federal equivalents, and municipal and county boards have very little power to undo, mainly power to tax and further strangulate the people.

It's fast becoming "Whatever is not prohibited is mandatory."


159 posted on 10/10/2005 10:48:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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