From: Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 19 1997 - 12:18:41 MDT
Michael Lorrey writes:
> You vote for your elected representatives, so its your fault what they
> do to you.
I'm hoping you mean this sardonically (ho ho ho, very funny), but if not,
I don't think this argument is going to do you much good on a list as
riddled with agorist anarchists as this one.
> I wouldn't want to have to lock my TIME and NEWSWEEK magazines
> up in a safe like my guns and Playboys/Penthouse's just to keep them
> away from my kids.
Yes, many people like for the state to make their lives more convenient
by telling other people what to do and what not to do. As long as we
continue to rely on a statist system, I can deal with people who want
the state to make their lives more convenient for them by apprehending
and imprisoning violent and larcenous people, but I don't have much
sympathy for those who call for the state to make their lives more
convenient by forcibly imposing restrictions on what sort of information
people may print and distribute.
Sorry, but in my little world the First Amendment trumps your domestic
convenience. (Begging the pardon of non-Yanks for my self-indulgent
parochialism.)
-- Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd
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