Quartering soldiers

cubic-dog dog3 at eruditium.org
Wed Jan 14 12:25:48 PST 2004


On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:48, Tim May wrote:
> > On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Steve Schear wrote:
> > 
> > > At 11:23 PM 1/12/2004, Tim May wrote:
> > >> "But if I own a computer and I rent out accounts to others and the FBI
> > >> comes to me and says "We are putting a Carnivore computer in your
> > >> place," how else can this be interpreted _except_ as a violation of
> > >> the Third?"
> > >>
> > The pure form of the Third (in this abstract sense) is when government 
> > knocks on one's door and says "Here is something you must put inside 
> > your house."
> 
> For this to make sense, we have to interpret Soldier to mean not
> just agents of the armed forces (military), it has to mean 
> law-enforcement as well. 

Indeed. 

I've never heard of the third interpreted this way.
Doesn't mean much, just never heard it.

Anyone have a reference? 





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