Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Okay guys! I came back to the list to find this! Well- it is all relative; In the past century, about 100 million people have been killed by their governments or their agents- Hitlar, Pol Pot, Stalin, et al. because they didn't have the means to protect themselves. So much for 'Gun Control'- whose ownership should be controlled? The same people who march for Pro-Choice often march against capital punishment; why not think of capital punishment as a really late term abortion? The same people who say the second amendment is obsolete, are usually the first to rely on the protections of the first amendment! Does 'states rights' automatically translate into advocating slavery? No! Even though slavery has been around for about 6000 years of recorded history, and is still being perpetrated in the Sudan (Of course, it's okay if it's brown brothers enslaving brown brothers-- not too much furor over that!) it is still reprehensible to most, and even a strict interpretation of the Constitution would see that it has no place here, States Rights notwithstanding! I am appalled that the first amendment is so defended, yet the others, the tenth in particular, is violated constantly. I am appalled that as a disabled veteran, I see American veterans, homeless and living in cardboard boxes with untreated ailments, while a pathalogical lying, draft-dodging, philandering sonofabitch with enough smirking charm to beguil the 20% or so of the voters to put him in office, live in the White House and bombs innocent East Europeans, Afghanis, and Sudanese aspirin plants to establish his "legacy". Well, I guess I'll take a leave for a while, and enjoy the blessings I have, and am still allowed to keep, including my Leicas- Have a happy holiday, and PLEASE- get back on topic... Dan