On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Mike Duvos wrote:
This is obviously the strategy here. If we lend credibility to the examination of chicken entrails because the Sorcerer is saying something we agree with, then we are powerless to denounce the process as flim-flam when we wake up one morning and find ourselves no longer in the Sorcerer's graces.
Nonsense. If we were dealing with rational people here, or even people irrational people who had an attention span & a memory, you would be right, but we are dealing with the USG, and the electorate. Their attention span won't get them across a street without loosing interest, and when they get to the other side, they have forgotten what they were after any way.
As Tim says, stick with Constitutional arguments, not utilitarian ones, and beware of Wise Persons from the East bearing Gifts.
Problem is, the constitution isn't worth the paper it is printed on any more. Petro, Christopher C. snow@smoke.suba.com