Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment
On Jan 9, 2004, at 10:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its hard to square the Founder's purpose of providing the common citizen, through a militia (which a National Guard), with an effective physical deterrent to governmental tyranny with many restrictions on the type of weapons a citizen in good standing may keep and bear. Though allowing the guy next door to own a nuke or a F-15 may be going too far, its not unreasonable for any of us to keep and bear any arm that our police forces (including S.W.A.T. teams) field. Where does this citizen in good standing stuff come from? I see it a lot from what I will call weak Second Amendment supporters. They talk about good citizens and law-abiding citizens as having Second Amendment rights. If someone has been apprehended and convicted and imprisoned for a real crime, then of course various of their normal rights are no longer in forced. If, however, they are out of prison then all of their rights, including speech, religion, assembly, firearms, due process, security of their possessions and property, speedy trial, blah blah blah are of course in force. As a felon, which I am, do I not have First Amendment rights? As a felon, and certainly not a citizen in good standing, have I lost my other rights? To all who say Yes, including most of the Eurotrash collectivists here, I say your legacy shall be smoke. Tens of millions, perhaps billions, need to be sent up the chimneys. --Tim May The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able may have a gun. --Patrick Henry The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. --Alexander Hamilton
Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:02, J.A. Terranson wrote: What good is a Jury when the judge can pick and choose which arguments and evidence you can provide in support of your case? I've occasionally handed out pamphlets on jury nullification outside the local county courthouse. Never been arrested for it, but I've caught a raft of shit from cops. The cops were acting, presumably, under direction from the judges or maybe the DA. Those guys just hate jurors thinking for themselves, you know.
Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Greg Broiles wrote: At 08:59 AM 1/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The great American experiment finally fizzled on December 1, 2003, when the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a 9th Federal Circuit decision which gutted the Second Amendment. It was a nice run - over two hundred years. As of December 1, 2003, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling, refusing to hear an appeal in the case of Silveira vs. Lockyer. That made Silveira the law of the land, you see. No, that's absolutely incorrect. Every conclusion you reach which depends on that flawed premise is suspect. Further appeals to Congress and the states are no longer a sure bet. The soap box and the ballot box have been throughly tried, is it now time to get out the ammo box? You're forgetting the jury box. What good is a Jury when the judge can pick and choose which arguments and evidence you can provide in support of your case? -- Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and legitimate patriotism, must give way to a wider loyalty, to the love of humanity as a whole. Bah'u'llh's statement is: The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. The Promise of World Peace http://www.us.bahai.org/interactive/pdaFiles/pwp.htm
Spam filter / killfile rule
There is a problem here how to killfile (or spamfilter) the more repeated nothing-saying posts without losing also his good stuff as the collateral damage. The good ruleset could be (translate to the syntax of whatever you use): Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Body contains: smoke Body contains: chimneys A specifically tweaked Bayesian filter could be maybe an option too.
