[Pyro7480]

BUMP! Good article...

[goldstategop]

We're going down Hell's highway --- at a slower speed than the Rats but its still the same highway. If that's what "compassionate" conservatism is, we should all be Marxists. It would be so much more honest.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

fyi

[weikel]

Although I don't like Bill Mahrer he was right about what a conservative prez should be. I don't want the president to know the meaning of the word compassion. I want a mean old man who protects my money and rights and who scares the crap outta the rest of the world.

[Joe Hadenuf]

All these threads are going to make the Bush damage control team exhausted from running from thread to thread.

[nothingnew]

I've posted it before, and here it goes again:

DO NOT $UPPORT THE MORALLY UN$UPPORTABLE!

AWAY IR$!

FMCDH

[nothingnew]

I've posted it before, and here it goes again:

DO NOT $UPPORT THE MORALLY UN$UPPORTABLE!

AWAY IR$!

FMCDH

[Demidog]

2. Consistent with this principle, Zubly taught: "The electors cannot confer any right on those whom they elect but what is inherent in themselves."

This means: If individuals don't possess the right to rob their neighbor, they cannot empower representatives to rob for them! Exactly correct. Since all power flows from the people, it is impossible that they can allow officials to use power they didn't first posess. It is a long-standing legal principle:

'Quod Per Me Non Possum, Nec Per Alium: "What I cannot do myself, I cannot do through another."

This doesn't just apply to taxation however. One does not have the right to steal his neighbors property simply because he smokes marijuana. Nor can he "delegate" this none-existent authority to his "representatives."

Any such claim is fraud.

[Alan Chapman]

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
- Thomas Jefferson

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
- Frederic Bastiat

"If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized."
- Lysander Spooner

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Yeah and there's something else afoot here concerning property, intellectual property.

Article 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power... "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

Now go read Richard Stallman's "The Software Manifesto" and related articles. Easy to find with a web search.

With all due respect to the onwer of this forum (as I know FR has been embroiled in IP issues), it is incumbent that we continue to vigorous protect against the erosion of intellectual property rights at all costs.

This means that on principle, we also need to defend the intellectual property rights of those rich leftist artists in the music and movie industry. Sure of artists want to give away their rights to their works thats one thing. But forcing artists who don't through legilation and judicial imprudence is another.

I believe IP rights were one of the cornerstones upon which this nation was built. We rely on the ability of individuals and this "initiative" in generating wealth and income. Take away or erode their IP rights and we become a third world cess pool.

[Uncle Bill]

Bttt