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

Collins Richey crichey
Tue Nov 23 20:07:50 PST 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:37:25 -0800, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On 11/23/2004 05:23 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:47:15 -0500, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >
> >
> > That fact is not much in evidence today, but even a Frenchman can be
> > right once in a while. I'll bookmark the site and enjoy.
> 
> I'm hoping that was meant as a joke, as its a rather biggoted statement
> otherwise.
> 

Neither a joke nor bigotry was intended.  I'll sign off here.

-- 
 Collins


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