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To: Southack
Yet, you've lost no specific liberty. What right was denied to you?

I'm always a little baffled by such questions. What do government laws do other then restrict behavior or take property, and therefore circumscribe freedom? If all the crimes protecting property and person have already been defined, then any new law can only restrict liberty or take propery, it can not make illegal a crime against another person's liberty or property i.e. murder, theft, rape etc. So every prohibition in new laws is a theft of our liberty.
301 posted on 01/30/2002 7:47:43 PM PST by verboten
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To: verboten
"I'm always a little baffled by such questions. What do government laws do other then restrict behavior or take property, and therefore circumscribe freedom? ... So every prohibition in new laws is a theft of our liberty."

No. There are thousands of driving laws, yet I can still drive. There are hundreds of drinking laws, yet I can still drink. There are scores of security laws, yet I can still purchase stocks. There are miriad property laws, yet I can still buy and sell land.

With that in mind, I asked you what SPECIFIC liberty that you've been denied.

325 posted on 01/30/2002 8:41:44 PM PST by Southack
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