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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (45142)	2/9/2006 10:21:51 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 90947

"they claim the legal right to use force against you if you won't do what they want." That is correct to a point, Laz. But the right to use force is not so much a "claim" as it is a right and an obligation imposed by the people in their exercise of Constitutional democracy. Other countries impose and enforce law with caprice and whim. We ought to hold ourselves above such unprincipled behaviour. The United States created a new standard by which people could live with one another. That difference must be highlighted. As much as we are both aware of the imperfections that beset individuals and groups--the criminals and the enforcers--we must emphasise that our laws DO in fact intend to safeguard the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness...and that measured force is a necessary and inescapable mechanism to that end. Law enforcement has no more right to interfere with your constitutional rights and freedoms than do I. They have no more right to infringe on my freedom (break the law) than I have to infringe on the lawful regulations enacted by myself with others under representative democracy.