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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (21932)5/23/1998 1:45:00 AM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
C:

What's happened to the "libertarian" you claimed to be?? Work camps!!!!! Well, Sieg Heil! I would sure hate to be poor and in your version of "Amerika".

You may not mind being robbed if you volunteer to be robbed. But what right do other individuals have in deciding that I can be robbed against my will? None. Not in a free country. This is what the Whiskey Rebellion was all about.

As for your ideas about drugs, I agree. Many who are now "criminals" and in jail would've been considered good citizens 100 years ago. Many of the Southern belles of the 1800s would have been doing time today as they used to be sitting around on their porches during the sultry southern summers with their cronies snorting cocaine daintily from their snuff bejeweled snuff boxes. All used to be legal, now illegal. If the government had its way totally smokers, beer drinkers, and imbibers of alcohol (and the producers of such) would all be cooling their heels in a federal slammer.

As for the "top of the heap" you've never been there so you make whopping (and erroneous) assumptions. Finally, individuals who succeed do not "take" they create, thus giving all the non-creators items of value that never would have existed without their (in some cases) supreme efforts.

You have the picture backwards. The takers are the non-productive.

FT
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