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To: Libertarianize the GOP
First, I was pointing out your poor logic skills. Death is not the only inevitable item in my list. Since you qualify integration as inevtiable, I'd say that nuclear accidents and America's eventual collapse into a dictatorship (as has every democratic nation in history) are inevitable, as well.

Second, it isn't integration that I'm struggling and hoping against. I'm far more bothered by the internal collapse of America due to idiotic policies that cater to certain groups, and further rupture the idea of individual rights. See my anecdote in post #36. I'm not against blacks moving wherever they want. I'm against government forcing people together "for their own good." I'm against it for many reasons... overreaching their bounds, government as nanny, forcing one group to do things to help another group, etc. Here's another anecdote from that Property Class of mine to back it up. The Lib-Prof was telling us that a racial discrimination case (either Heart of Atlanta Motel v US or Jones v Mayer, I forget which and my notes are at school) was decided explicitly using the 13th Amendment, since discrimination was a vestige of slavery days. I pointed out that if the 13th was the basis for the decision, it should have been decided the exact opposite way... the only pertinent language in the (very short) 13th was "involuntary servitude" and that forcing a white man who doesn't want to voluntarily serve a black man to do so is by its very plain nature "involuntary service to another."

BTW, I would have thought that this sort of logic was as Libertine as it gets. Protecting the individual's rights, limiting federal powers, and relying on free-market economic forces to bear out changes are usually solid Libertarian grounds. Does "libertarinizing the GOP" not go that far in your book?

53 posted on 12/23/2002 6:21:14 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Teacher317
If you want to read more into my statement more than is there; go ahead, and while you are going to all that trouble, why don’t you go ahead and post my replies for me. Maybe after you finish the debate you can flag me and I will come back and see how I did.
56 posted on 12/23/2002 7:22:48 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: Teacher317
Jones v. Mayer was decided under the 13th Amendment. Heart of Atlanta Motel was decided under the Commerce Clause.
57 posted on 12/23/2002 7:26:34 AM PST by aristeides
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