Re: General Ashcroft makes his move

2001-07-13 Thread georgemw
On 12 Jul 2001, at 19:55, A. Melon wrote: > > Those 3 things you mentioned violate the First on at least two counts, > free speech and press, > and also the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of > religion, or > prohibiting the free exercise thereof" part --- the ob

Re: General Ashcroft makes his move (typo)

2001-07-12 Thread Jim Choate
Sorry... On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jim Choate wrote: > What we have is a system that is focused on ways around the Constitution > based on 'good of society' concepts. The base problem with them is the a > priori assumption that the Constitution doesn't work and needs to be > worked around in the fir

Re: General Ashcroft makes his move

2001-07-12 Thread Jim Choate
Another observation about our 'implimentation' of the Constitution... Since we live in a democracy based on 'consent' (1st 2 para's DoI) and the concept of 'life, liberty, pursuit of happiness' coupled with 'shall not interfere with others expression' as axiomatic concepts of American democracy

Re: General Ashcroft makes his move

2001-07-12 Thread A. Melon
Those 3 things you mentioned violate the First on at least two counts, free speech and press, and also the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" part --- the obscenity and kid porn stuff is pure Judeo-Christian bigo