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To: rrufff who wrote (4861)	12/8/2003 2:21:32 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I find it very odd to have such a law in our country. I was wondering what lobby put the text in the law. The way government works (as portrayed in university classes) is that a lobbyist would most likely have prepared the text in draft form. There would be several other drafts coming in from various lobby groups. The final creation, as much a thing of horror as Frankenstein, will be cut and pasted largely from textual blurbs collected by staffers from the input from the lobbyists. So, if I ask "Are these socks from Israel?" when I'm standing in line at Mervyns, then it appears some interest, maybe several, want it to be as though I'd screamed a racial epithet and a physical threat of violence at the cashier. Where is the battery in the made-in-Israel question? Israel isn't a person and to ask if there is Israeli content can't be inferred to be an expression of "intent to harm". Despite this, one would seem to be guilty of a federal offence if they ask "Are these socks from Israel?" 2weird