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To: redfish who wrote (10898)5/18/2004 8:46:37 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (3) of 20773
 
I won't go into a long diatribe why I disagree; if I do 60mph in a school zone to protest unjust traffic enforcement, that doesn't mean that school zones should be scrapped. It means I should get a ticket. We need a cop on the corner by the school.

If I go beat up someone at the supermarket who supports Bush and get away with it once or twice, we shouldn't scrap our laws against assault. I shouldn't go on a binge of assaulting every Young Republican I encounter.

If I do, I stand for nothing except the rabble of the mob, just another petty tyranny with no moral standing or moral vision to offer as an alternative to what I may hate.

I don't agree with the old saw that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. It's a Pandora's box that never ends well.
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