CNN.com on Remailers

Marcel Popescu mdpopescu at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 17 03:14:53 PST 2001


From: "Faustine" <faustine at lokmail.net>

> My point was that without constitutional protection, it would be
infinitely
> easier for innocent people and arbitrarily-determined thought-crimanal
"enemies
> of the state" to be shot right along with the real criminals. In America
as it
> exists today, the Constitution is the only thing that stands in the way of
> full-scale repression in the name of "security". Be careful what you wish
for,
> that's all.

I bet FBI agents have nightmares. At least those involved in the Waco and
Ruby Ridge cases. I think they were unable to sleep at night, dreaming of a
piece of paper jumping between them and their victims and threatening to...
whatever.

Has anyone EVER saw the Constitution stand in any place, let alone "in the
way of full-scale represion"? People with guns do that, not paper. Why do I
have to repeat something this obvious?

(No, "it was a metaphor" doesn't cut it. It was a dumb metaphor. Next time
you're arguing something, get rid of metaphors. As an exercise, try
rephrasing what you said above without using any. Forget about
"constitutional protection" or "Constitution standing in the way". Try to
make sense.)

Mark





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