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To: Scotsman will be Free
That was back before we started charging people with crimes they "might" do instead of what they were either provably planning on doing or actually done.

Things have pretty much been downhill since then.

No victim? No crime. When we started letting the Law itself stand as accuser/victim, we lost that whole "justice" thing we were once so proud of.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson

139 posted on 12/29/2009 9:46:28 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Dead Corpse; Scotsman will be Free
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson

thanks DC for this quote, and to you both for realizing that our Rights must be defended every time, not just when its convenient...

140 posted on 12/29/2009 1:36:24 PM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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