Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?
Date: 17 Oct 2024 02:44:39 GMT
Lines: 32
Message-ID: <lnbc0mF45jfU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <vdjdo8$37qau$2@dont-email.me> <5kbLO.27540$MxR.15067@fx47.iad>
	<vdjglf$37qau$8@dont-email.me> <EMbLO.69483$2nv5.13284@fx39.iad>
	<slrnvfr8d6.2hs3k.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid>
	<OhjLO.373329$WOde.174877@fx09.iad> <vdlon0$3mboc$1@dont-email.me>
	<iwxLO.416975$_o_3.405135@fx17.iad> <vdn7qa$3tl7t$1@dont-email.me>
	<vdolcv$7656$3@dont-email.me> <lmb53bF4ppiU15@mid.individual.net>
	<vdr501$nhda$9@dont-email.me> <2p9MO.249130$v8v2.184845@fx18.iad>
	<faa2gjlchj56387qoq1d1shpaq7guecule@4ax.com>
	<y8aMO.70684$7OO5.67928@fx43.iad> <vepf4e$2e4fp$3@dont-email.me>
	<cBXPO.62599$Enpe.7740@fx38.iad>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: individual.net kSTK6QsXlvqgflVMBW0MIA8tlaRqUfqeGY6y8urtTLbuoN/h8E
Cancel-Lock: sha1:dmN678ZRfre7F1KoSA4dRNSOTyU= sha256:BW6nVD1/cUqMCGtPorKdnkUvqwX8H/gtBxOp65nRdW0=
User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba)
Bytes: 2744

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:01:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> Yeah, it was, but the country has changed significantly since the 1960s
> at the very least. It has become the opposite of what fans of the
> Constitution would expect it to be.

Id I haven't quoted it recently...

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much 
is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have 
had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to 
exist.”

Lysander Spooner   1867

Spooner was an anti-capitalist individualist anarchist. While he was an 
ardent abolitionist part of his argument in 'No Treason: The Constitution 
of No Authority' was Lincoln had absolutely no constitutional 
justification by forcing the the Confederate states to remain in the union 
and were not traitors for asserting their right.

Lincoln was the first Republican president and the party has had a 
checkered career since then. I cringe when Romney says he wants to rebuild 
the Republican party. I did not vote for him and would not vote for a 
party recreated in his image. 

The original stated purpose of the convention was to refine the Articles 
of Confederation, not create a whole new document that needed ten 
amendments and much bribery before it was ratified. It was weak then as 
the anti-Federalists pointed out and weakened further by the Marshall 
court that long outlasted the Federalist party.