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To: Elroy who wrote (211527)	1/2/2007 11:36:57 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If some states wanted to take away the rights of black people, I don't think I'd want that either. The travel cases, which made it impossible to deny black people a hotel room, or food in a restaurant, are also not based on any law you can actually find in the constitution. It's all linked, somewhat delicately, to interstate commerce. That said, there are some rights so fundamental I do not think we should allow the mob- which is what democracy is- to take them away- just because the electorate wants to take those rights away. Just my opinion, as I said, but I've thought about this a long time, I've looked at all the alternatives, and I can't see any alternative better than the US supremes safeguarding these freedoms which, imo, are central to living free, and being free.