Re: Netscape download requirements

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, David Sternlight wrote:

> I've been around for so long that I knew when I typed the above
> someone would try to take my words literally in order to avoid
> my point and pick the above nit.

I don't think the 9th and 10th Amendments are nits.

> If they disagree with what Congress and the administration have
> done, there are well-established ways to petition Congress to
> change it. 

Read the 9th, David.  Our rights exist whether or not the current
regime recognizes them.  The reason Congress gets away with so
many violation is in part due to the current population being
willing to exchange a false sense of security for out and out
violations of the clear words of the Bill of Rights.  That may 
be democracy, but at the expense of Constitutionally guaranteed
freedoms.  Read the 9th and 10th, David.

> If they fail, t.s.--that's the way our system works.

Or doesn't work.

> YOU don't get to force your will on the wider population,

No, you merely get to stop others from forcing their will on you.

> nor do YOU get to tell them that they are poor benighted fools
> who should agree with YOUR views on civil liberties. To assert
> otherwise is fascism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, pick one.

No, David, it's free speech.  Read the 1st Amendmend, David. 


 S a n d y

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