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To: dynachrome

So, you’re in favor of allowing the government to compel a citizen to engage in behavior that it mandates?

How does that square with America’s founding principles?


45 posted on 02/01/2011 11:02:20 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

If obozo care is Constitutional, so is this. (I was trying for a bit of sarcasm)


49 posted on 02/01/2011 11:29:53 AM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Windflier

>So, you’re in favor of allowing the government to compel a citizen to engage in behavior that it mandates?

Isn’t that, to some extent, the idea behind [criminalizing] perjury?

>How does that square with America’s founding principles?

Well, there is the Militia Act of 1792, which mandated that those enrolled in the militia furnish their own equipment AND mandated enrollment.


77 posted on 02/01/2011 5:28:35 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Windflier
So, you’re in favor of allowing the government to compel a citizen to engage in behavior that it mandates?

How does that square with America’s founding principles?

United States Code, U.S. Criminal Code, §ection 4.

Misprision of felony

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Turn in your neighbor as an unpaid governmental informant, citizen. Or go to jail and remain a convicted felon.

79 posted on 02/01/2011 5:43:26 PM PST by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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