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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (16602)	6/13/2001 2:33:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The necessary consequence of what you are saying is that the revolutionaries were wrong and should not have broken away from Britain. That the principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that at certain times people have the right to break political bonds is wrong. Yes "the people" have the right to break political bonds. Since when are you "the people?." You are one person. You hold a view of the contract between the government and each of us. We all share the identical contract with the government and we all have interpretations of what the contract means. If you don't like the contract, you can get enough of the rest of us on board to change its interpretation or you can opt out by becoming a recluse or going somewhere else. You can't take it upon yourself to break or alter that contract on behalf of all of us. But in this case, the only entity with the authority to decide such matters is the party who I believe is violating the contract. There IS no objective disute resolver here. Yes, there is. It's called the Supreme Court. It's up to them to rule on what's constitutional and what's not. Their opinion rules, not yours. Any individual who presumes to know best for all of us is a megalomaniac. Do you like that label? Karen