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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (76796)	4/4/2000 9:17:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Legislation and laws should be objective and constrained ONLY to protecting individual rights and property rights. The government IS in the business of legislating morality and it has NO business being there. People born into a society tend to accept the status quo and many do not even realize the freedoms they are denied because they never had the chance to experience them. Few are students of history and, in fact, find it a boring subject. Your views on drugs and taxes seem to be based on accepted programming and an ignorance of what has gone before. Alcohol, cocaine and marijuana were all in the same category in the 1800s and many Southern Belles whiled away lazy summer days in the Old South snorting their pinches of cocaine -- obtained from the local pharmacy -- from daintily embroidered snuff boxes. It was the federal government, backed by a contingent of zealous christian churches, that pushed for legislation and in alcohol's case, an amendment, banning alcohol and drugs. Quite illegal, very unconstitutional and a blatant move to control behavior and impress the "morality" of one group of Americans upon another group. What suffered was the freedom to choose and personal liberty. It still strikes me as ironic that the vast majority of those in state and federal prisons today would have been considered good citizens less than 100 years ago. A case in point is the immoral and unconstitutional Sherman Anti-trust act which the so-called "Justice Department" is using to prosecute Microsoft for being "too successful". I applaud Bill Gates for his courage in deciding to fight back. He exhibits the true American spirit, mostly lost today, which was once summed up in the motto: "Don't Tread on Me." I say the federal government is a monopoly, not Microsoft! Let's break up the federal government and disarm the bureaucrats. We are about to enter the new millennium in 2001 -- it's time Americans took back control of their freedom and their personal destinies. FT