On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 10:06 AM 5/22/03 -0700, barabbus@hushmail.com wrote:
At 06:27 2003-05-21 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
However Washington is a government, and the 14th has something to say:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the...
Too bad the 14th was unconstitutionally ratified and therefore null and
void.
In that case you have no guns/speech/due process/etc if the locals so chose, etc. [Lets not start flaming about BoR erosion...I realize there's plenty, and not enough rope or tall trees to treat the cause]
Neither rope nor tall trees is an efficient solution. Think instead of open pits and bulldozers. --Tim May "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked ...A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." -- Grady Booch