At 12:09 AM 11/6/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:05:03PM -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
Who decides what is "cruel and unusual"?
Well, hell, who decides what "speech" is, or "religion," or a firearm? (Is Politech speech, is Scientology a religion, is a stun gun a firearm?)
According to new federal laws, a non-lethal stun gun *is* in fact a firearm. Supposedly enacted specifically to keep felons from stun-guns, it seems geared more towards keeping the populace from self-defence. Note also that the latest version of the stun gun, the first truly useful one, can only be sold to law enforcement officers, and not the public. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------