[Southack]

"Government never gives back the power it takes."

So how's that alcohol prohibition thing workin' out for ya? Still can't buy booze?

And tell me, are you afraid of being drafted?

[LambSlave]

So how's that alcohol prohibition thing workin' out for ya? Still can't buy booze? And tell me, are you afraid of being drafted?

Government didn't "take" power during Prohibition is was done through the only legitimate means of increasing Government powers-- the resolution of a Constitutional Amendment; nevertheless the power to reinstate or even expand this power could be achieved today without such an amendment. There is nothing whatsoever preventing re-institution of the draft, except that senior DOD leadership knows that drafted soldiers aren't nearly as effective as an all-volunteer Army and scream and howl any time the subject is proposed...

[Quick1]

So how's that alcohol prohibition thing workin' out for ya?

Funny, seems to me that we still have a Prohibition going on. And we didn't even need a Constitutional Amendment to do it the second time.

Do you think the government will ever give back it's newfound emminent domain power?

[mysterio]

Prohibition is much worse now than it was when it was just alcohol.

Clinton's justice department wanted "patriot" act style powers. We were smart enough then not to give them to him.