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To: Impeach the Boy
they wish to claim no law is broken if they have not iniated force

Not so. Our claim is that defining something as a crime does not make the action wrong. Surely you are aware of the legal concepts of Malum In Se and Malum Prohibitum?

It was once illegal to shelter runaway slaves. Those who did so (and the escaping slaves themselves) broke the law, and were heroes in doing so.

It was once legal to own slaves. Those who did so acted within the law, but were committing serious crime.

Get it?

624 posted on 09/19/2002 6:04:58 PM PDT by SJC_Libertarian
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To: SJC_Libertarian
YOU don't get it...a law that protected slavery was immoral...the law was changed. To compare dope smokers to HEROES is silly...but then so much about the LP is silly. LESS THAN 6% of the vote...GET IT!!!!
625 posted on 09/19/2002 6:18:33 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: SJC_Libertarian; Roscoe
Um, excuse me, there's a self-avowed libertarian on this thread telling people to mind their own business when a four year old child is mercilessly assaulted. Clean-up in Isle 16.
629 posted on 09/19/2002 7:05:51 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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