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To: one_less who wrote (29156)	2/15/2005 4:57:28 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The ACLU will bail them out

To: one_less who wrote (29156)	2/16/2005 11:56:20 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

A South Carolina man is one of seven members of the North American Man-Boy Love Association who's been arrested in California and charged with planning to go to Mexico to have sex with boys. I'm glad I'm not one of them. And I'm glad that the thought of that disgusts me. But at the same time, I wonder why they are being arrested in the US for an act they planned to carry out in another country which, for all we know, might not have been illegal in that country. (I dont' know whether it is or isn't.) But frankly I don't see the benefit in spending our limited law-enforcement tax dollars protecting Mexican children from an act which for all we know they may have chosen to engage in because they need the money. There are many nasty things going on in the world. This was apparently to be one of them. But it California's job to arrest and prosecute residents of other states who were just passing through California with the intent of engaging, in an independent soverign nation, acts which may or may not have been illegal in that country? And as a libertarian, I have to wonder whether this is any of the state's business anyhow.