Re: oh please.

"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Bruce Geerdes wrote:
> Except that it's not the document itself they're necessarily worried 
> about but the rights enshrined (ooh, religious imagery!) in it. What 
> would you think if we were talking about taking away rights that you 
> hold dear?

You mean, like, through an Amendment that took away slave-owners' rights? 
Or an Amendment that took away the right to drink?  Or an amendment that 
contradicted the previous Amendment and gave that right back?  Etc.

> I mean, read the founding fathers of this country and all their talk 
> about tyrants and "blood of patriots". This stuff is our history, not 
> something people are making up on the fly.

Whoa, you're starting to sound like a right-winger, there, Bruce!  ;)

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