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

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:02:05PM -0700, Collins Richey took 26 lines to write:
> 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.

You're gonna hate this, then, because he was an early 19th century
economist and politician. From France. ;-)

See http://www.mises.org/content/fredericbastiat.asp

Kurt
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