[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.

J.A.Henshaw jhenshaw at dsl-only.net
Thu Mar 28 01:57:05 UTC 2002


Wil Cooley wrote:


> Quite a bit has changed that potentially affects free speech and
> the right to bear arms.  


You are discussing unalienable natural rights.  They are not 
subject to legislation under our form of government.



With advertising and mass media, "free
> speech" has been used to put a good amount of "speech" in our faces.
> This sort of this just wasn't possible back then, or at least,
> it wasn't really done.  Could you drop propaganda leaflets over
> a city from an air plane?  I suppose people could have had huge
> billboards advertising toothpaste or a political party, but I don't
> recall any liturature before the turn of the 20th century where it
> was really prolific.
> 
> And yes, the constitution allows "arms" (I won't even try to
> argue the nature of the "well regulated militia").  



The constitution does not "allow" anything.

It protects natural rights.  It restricts officials of the 
govt,  by oath of office.

It does not in any way restrict the people.

It does not "allow" the govt to restrict unalienable rights.

You may think we need to reexamine the first and second 
amendments but thankfully you have no legal authority to 
change them, nor do the courts.



It doesn't say
> "small arms"; it says "arms"--"instruments or weapons of offense
> or defense."  Does that mean you'd support private citizens owning
> tanks or nuclear warheads?  But it wouldn't really make sense
> to allow private citizens to have this sort of thing.  



There you go with the "allow" angle again!

If your neighbor has a tank,  does it affect you?  How?

Tom Clancy has one parked in his front yard, an Abrams I 
believe.

It hasn't bothered me.



At least,
> I'd be much quicker to find a new homeland if that were the case.
> 
> Just for the sake of argument, if not for sport hunting, what is
> the purpose of second amendment?
> 
> Wil
> 


-- 
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what they 
will have for lunch.





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