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To: wirestripper
What kind of freedom do you seek?

You ask almost as though I were seeking to blow up the world with an aleuteum Q46 explosive space modulator and claim that it was just a cigarette lighter gone blooey. ;)

But for a proper answer to your question, begin with a pair of documents known as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, properly construed and, where appropriate, amended. (Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, anyone?)

I seek, in short, the end of the improperly consecrated, paternalistic State, and the restoration of properly construed and minimal American government. Which is to say, government (at all levels) whose sole legitimate business - aside from the proper and diligent defence of Americans' lives and properties - is to stay the hell out of your business, my business, and any and every individual American citizen's business, unless - big "unless" - one citizen would obstruct or abrogate a fellow citizen's equivalent rights.

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Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! ;)
101 posted on 01/26/2002 12:28:34 AM PST by BluesDuke
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To: BluesDuke
"And they say I am a dreamer!" (John Lennon)
103 posted on 01/26/2002 12:31:37 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: BluesDuke
"is to stay the hell out of your business, my business, and any and every individual American citizen's business"

Like that's ever going to be reality again. Call me a cynic, but I've seen little evidence of the government relinquishing any power once it's gotten hold of it. I am in agreement with you, however.

285 posted on 01/26/2002 9:12:05 AM PST by sweetliberty
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