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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:36:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net> Subject: Re: "adjust your attitude with their billy club"
"Given the loss of privacy tolerated by 99.9999% of American citizens in the past twenty years, no one has a right to complain about the government taking new powers for itself."
You cannot have it both ways. If you are free to define what is or is not a public nuisance when you do it; likewise am I.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION Articles in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution. ARTICLE IX. The enumeration of the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. ARTICLE X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. [The first ten amendments went into effect on 15 December 1791.]