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To: Michael Barnes

The liberty to use illegal drugs?

Or the liberty to vote regardless of competence?

The founders had both competence and responsibility requirements to vote. It is no encroachment of liberty to say that criminals, the mentally incompetent, wards of the state, etc. lack the wherewithal to choose the nation’s leadership. An habitual drug user doesn’t need to be involved in the voting process. This ‘egalitie’ notion belongs to a different revolution.


14 posted on 06/01/2012 1:00:29 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: LucianOfSamasota
The liberty to use illegal drugs guns?
25 posted on 06/01/2012 3:19:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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