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To: mysterio
A fake quote. Your specialty.

How about a real one?

"The voluntary support of laws, formed by persons of their own choice, distinguishes peculiarly the minds capable of self-government. The contrary spirit is anarchy, which of necessity produces despotism." --Thomas Jefferson

506 posted on 02/13/2006 8:13:16 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Yeah, let's play that game.

ARTICLE IV - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirrnation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

"Article lV says that we are supposed to be secure and not have to worry about searches and seizures, yet the government conducts searches all the time on the slightest of evidence. Our government seizes a billion dollars a year in homes, boats, planes and money, without ever filing a charge. Even more repugnant is the fact that the government often pays informants 25% of the seized assets to make allegations that are then used to obtain search warrants."

Don't think for a second that the founding fathers would toss out the Bill of Rights to appease you anti-drug zealots or to further your failed war on some drugs.

Better post some more sad pictures or something.
507 posted on 02/13/2006 8:28:07 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Mojave
""I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Archibald Stuart - 1791)
508 posted on 02/13/2006 8:31:06 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Mojave
"... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual"
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany - 1819)
509 posted on 02/13/2006 8:32:18 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Mojave
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

- Thomas Jefferson
510 posted on 02/13/2006 8:34:21 PM PST by mysterio
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