-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 09:04 AM 1/26/96 -0600, Mike Tighe wrote:

Perry E. Metzger writes:

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I am a funny sort of person. I don't believe that governments should be able to do anything that individuals cannot. If it is bad for me to steal, it is also bad for a government official to steal. If it is bad for me to listen in on my neighbor's phone calls, it is bad for the government, too.

I do not see anything funny, but you are at odds with the Constitution, where the people have granted the government certain rights that they have not granted to themselves. But it seems we may be making progress at getting those rights ourselves.

It isn't clear to me that the Constitution grants "rights" to the government that aren't already possessed by the people themselves. Would that even be possible? "Powers" maybe, "rights," maybe not. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMQk/8vqHVDBboB2dAQHTywP/aw9I8woDyjTIGgiUc3AB4S9bCGnRsIUo Ggrpc6PCpeIb+irflrffSpopiTJa+PQlMJUG0eXi3Bldi6mBVNCWeW1n1dOzwM9L lWV70S6Zw/CuRfvwH6byw01XdUbIq6egiVTis6/QVo727Q1k03nqeXdmnRo+lt9Q YAHdaDYWVZM= =a6qT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----