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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (14380)	12/22/1997 12:27:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Jack!!! I see you are a surgeon who is interested in movies and discusses poetry on these threads, AND you went to the University of Virginia!!! There are a lot of people with ties to Virginia here at the Feelings thread, so I hope you will like it here. I would have to do research on some of your Constitutional examples, which is impossible right now because I have to make Christmas cards tonight, and then get up very early in the morning to go to a shop which makes handmade candy canes, for the stockings everyone is hanging by the chimney with care. I agree totally that the IRS has overstepped its bounds. On double jeopardy, do you think that the differences between civil and criminal penalties are irrelevant to the argument? Also, when the federal government alleges deprivation of civil rights, as they did in Rodney King, do you think that is still double jeopardy? It's not really the same crime. The drug example is a little tricky. There are always going to be innocent victims of all laws, but hopefully they are very much in the minority. Do you think it would be better to decriminalize drugs? We certainly seem to have lost the battle to interdict them. Anyway, welcome!!

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (14380)	12/22/1997 12:17:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I remember the tenth amendment/55mph tizzy. I was ten. I think I remember the fiendishly clever way the Gov't got the 55mph deal through. They didn't actually legislate it, thereby keeping their furry paw out of the bear trap. What they did, they simply threatened to withhold Federal highway money (billions!) from any state not toeing the line on 55. I don't believe fiscal policy is granted the same status as law. Nothing in the Constitution about extortion. Ain't America really something special? :-)