[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

J.A.Henshaw jhenshaw at dsl-only.net
Thu Mar 28 01:40:19 UTC 2002


Craighead, Scot D wrote:

>>Ew, Fox News?  LOL  I hope no one watches Fox for anything
>>but laughs, maybe a little fictional drama.
>>
> 
> Say what you will about FOX News, but consider this.  Unlike CNN, NBC, ABC
> and CBS, Fox lets both the liberals and the conservative have a chance to
> say what they want to say.  I have seen several news stories that would
> never have seen the light of day, if not for Fox News.  One is the
> Condit-Levy affair.  Fox was reporting it weeks before the others.  I think
> the others wanted to just sweep it under the rug and after several weeks it
> became to big and they finally began to report it.
> 
> 
>>But the example you gave in the previous message was a law passed
>>by the popularly-elected Congress, not the courts.  More often than
>>not, at least for cases that receive lots of attention, it seems the
>>courts are the ones who strike down a Congressionally instituted law,
>>based on its conflict with the constitution.
>>
> 
> Yes, the congress passed a bill that they knew to be unconstitutional and
> the president signed it.  What I hope to see is the supreme court striking
> the law entirely and telling congress to go back to the drawing board and
> try again.  What I will probably see is the court striking parts and leaving
> other parts and making rules about how laws like these should be written in
> the future.  All of this is legislating and they have no right to do it.  I
> hope I will be pleasantly surprised.
> 
> 
>>Just for the sake of argument, if not for sport hunting, what is
>>the purpose of second amendment?
>>
> 
> An excellent question.  The people that wrote the constitution believed that
> government was something that needed to be limited as much as possible.
> They had just fought a long war for freedom from one government.  They
> wanted the citizens to be able to arm themselves to over through any future
> government that may become oppressive and not act in the will of the people.
> 



Yep.  They were paranoid.






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