<OT> Use a laser printer? You can be traced

Collins Richey crichey
Tue Nov 23 13:06:13 PST 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:43:42 -0800, Bill Campbell
<linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> Often, the difference between a crime and a law is that a majority voted
> for the law.
> 
>   ``But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if
>   the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to
>   other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one
>   citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself
>   cannot do without committing a crime.'' -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law
> 

I can think of at least one major political party which has
incorporated this drivel as its core belief, and they wonder why they
are no longer in power! BTW, who is Frederic Bastiat; he sounds like a
sane person.

-- 
 Collins


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