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To: billbears
Sigh, I'm going to state this one more time but it will go over your head (again).

I got your "over my head" right here in my hip pocket. Since you won't address any of my questions (e.g. what 'remedy' would the Framers recommend for pornographers, blasphemers, drug pushers, abortionists...?), and since you change the goal posts at will ("I'm in line with the Libertarians...well, I don't really support a lot of what the Libertarians believe...Ronald Reagan adopted 'libertarian' themes...I didn't mean Libertarian libertarian themes, I meant "classic liberal" libertarian themes, as I intuit them"), I think we've gone as far as we need go. Besides I wouldn't want to wake you from you dreams of the Articles of Confederation, mint juleps on the veranda, your "house servant" fanning away the blue-tailed fly, while the "field hands" bring in your cotton crop...

153 posted on 11/13/2006 8:57:15 PM PST by pawdoggie
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To: pawdoggie
Since you won't address any of my questions (e.g. what 'remedy' would the Framers recommend for pornographers, blasphemers, drug pushers, abortionists...?)

I answered your question. Should I put the answer in a hooked on phonics format for you? From my previous post

Pornography, drugs, etc. are issues that would fall under 'The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.'

meaning, for those in Republican world, the Framers probably wouldn't have done a dern thing about it. Well other than notify the local authorities. You see they were working on a federal document and, as the Federalist Papers point out (from which I quoted), they saw what you are railing about as a state issue. If the citizens of the state of Pennsylvania had deemed that laws should be enacted against such actions, I would expect those in the wrong would be prosecuted. If not, then nothing would be done about it.

since you change the goal posts at will ("I'm in line with the Libertarians...well, I don't really support a lot of what the Libertarians believe...Ronald Reagan adopted 'libertarian' themes...I didn't mean Libertarian libertarian themes, I meant "classic liberal" libertarian themes, as I intuit them")

Ah, I see the confusion here. Well you see, unlike Republicans and Democrats, libertarians think for themselves. They don't have to toe a party line nor are they necessarily locked to a national party line to be considered faithful to their ideals. So yes being able to hold some views from the party while disagreeing with others would be a foreign idea to a 'conservative' such as yourself

I think we've gone as far as we need go. Besides I wouldn't want to wake you from you dreams of the Articles of Confederation, mint juleps on the veranda, your "house servant" fanning away the blue-tailed fly, while the "field hands" bring in your cotton crop...

Ah yes, back to the assumptions, I could expect no less

For the record I have answered your question as succintly and as clear as I possibly can. You asked what the Framers would have done about the concerns you have and I have laid out exactly what would have been done

155 posted on 11/14/2006 5:37:29 AM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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