Cheers, Ken Hanly
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:30 AM Subject: Re: US Sedition Act
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> From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
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> > > "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who
> > >inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
> Government,
> > >they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or
> their
> > >revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
> > > --A. Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
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> > Nice try, C.G., and lofty political rhetoric, but not law. In fact,
> Lincoln
> > was immediately to put ther full weight of the United States against
> some
> > people who triedto exercise that "right," which he always denied
> existed in
> > law. It is illegal under a whole bunch of laws to actively try to
> overthrow
> > the government, as opposed to abstractly advocate its overthrow. jks
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> Said it once but I'll say it again.
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> 'The law' is nothing but a bunch of philosophical assertions backed up
> with guns.
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> How come the laws of physics--and don't try to Van Fraasen this one--
> don't need a god or a state to back them up?
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> Ian
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> Ian
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