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To: Recon Dad
You've got a point there - - - The response likely will be that the citation is an ''administrative'' matter and the constitutional privilege is a ''criminal'' standard. I don't know about other states but in Florida changing the syntax to make it sound like something else won't work for government. If there is a adverse effect you can call it a Mozart symphony but the reality controls. It's the old axiom about looking like a duck, walking like of duck while calling the little animal a chevrolet won't make it so.

Someone will make a constitutioonal challenge--and has an excellent chance of prevailing. On a more visceral level, I like the idea, but government just can't undertake a thing with good motives if it contravenes a constitutional provision......That's the whole thing about expressing dissent of government conduct by burning a flag; different event, same theory......

26 posted on 11/22/2006 3:12:16 PM PST by middie
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To: middie

I've heard this argument made and I believe it's working its way through the courts as we speak. I like to play jail house lawyer, my brother is the lawyer in the family. (every family seems to have one)


27 posted on 11/22/2006 3:19:24 PM PST by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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