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To: Lusis; y'all
I know for a fact that many people who support collectivists would read this and think they are individualists.

Yep, we see them posting here everyday. They truly believe that unlimited majority rule is a 'republican form of government'.

The sad fact is that these days, the hyperbole and rhetoric is so bad that people can't even tell when they're deceiving themselves. To them, laws aimed at gays, women, and minorities is supporting individual rights.

Prohibitive laws 'aimed' at minorities by majorities are almost always unconstitutional.

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." -- Thomas Sowell

Great line. Thanks.

13 posted on 06/06/2007 8:43:46 AM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: tpaine
"Prohibitive laws 'aimed' at minorities by majorities are almost always unconstitutional".

Laws are one thing, individuals choosing their preferences is another. We can repeal the first, but it is wrong and against individual rights to make the latter illegal.

16 posted on 06/06/2007 9:05:36 AM PDT by Lusis ("Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.")
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To: tpaine
One more thing...

Yep, we see them posting here everyday. They truly believe that unlimited majority rule is a 'republican form of government'.

And what about those who think that the government forbidding a businessman from hiring workers in another country is not tyranny and contrary to a free market?

18 posted on 06/06/2007 9:09:48 AM PDT by Lusis ("Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.")
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