On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:42:23 -0400, frank theriault wrote:

> The problem is that these lawmakers
> haven't thought enough about the consequences, in their haste to
> satisfy what they perceive as the public's clamouring to "protect"
> certain "victims".

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken

I don't agree with his "all", but I'd happily go along with "most".

TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ


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