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

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
>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.

Frederic Bastiat was a French scholar and member of the French assembly in
the middle of the 19th century.  He was a contemporary of Alexis de
Toqueville, author of ``Democracy in America''.  I think that Bastiat's
best know work is his essay ``The Law'' from which the quote above comes.

	http://www.celestial.com/Members/bill/Essays/thelaw

The site, http://bastiat.org/, has far more than I do on my site.

Bill
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