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To: Coronal

You must live somewhere else. Where I live, it's against the law to sell liquor before noon on Sunday, also after one on Friday and after midnight on Saturday, I think is the way it goes. Except for bars, which cannot serve after two a.m.

There are no rights outside the law. I suggest you not test that in TX, for your own welfare.


291 posted on 07/06/2006 1:51:12 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou
There are no rights outside the law. I suggest you not test that in TX, for your own welfare.

Please tell me that's a joke on TX, and not a comment on your view of rights.

311 posted on 07/06/2006 2:57:42 PM PDT by LexBaird ("Politically Correct" is the politically correct term for "F*cking Retarded". - Psycho Bunny)
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To: Froufrou
There are no rights outside the law. I suggest you not test that in TX, for your own welfare.

Wow, you're working from a very odd premise. Are you posting from the US, or some other country?

Because here in the US, our nation was founded on the principle that rights do not flow from government, or from the law - that they rather are inherent in the individual, and it is the role of government and the law to protect those rights.

This is laid out in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

It was a radical departure from the organizing principles of governments of the day, mainly things like "The Divine Right of Kings" and what have you, but it is an idea that has swept the world...

... except in certain Blue Law jurisdictions.

312 posted on 07/06/2006 3:01:47 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Froufrou
There are no rights outside the law

Totally incorrect. Laws do not determine nor bestow rights.

325 posted on 07/06/2006 6:24:54 PM PDT by Protagoras (("Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists." - Walter Williams)
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