Re: Just Say "No" to Congress

At 01:25 AM 5/15/97 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Tim wrote:
>
>> We're basically under assault from all directions. The bozos in Congress
>> and state governments are spinning out new laws and obscure regulations
>> faster than we can react...and of course they're using our money to
>> generate these laws and lobby for them. Further, a mostly-brainwashed
>> Washington media population is surprising uncritical of these blizzard
>> drifts of new laws.
>
>Hmmm... Do I get counted in the "mostly-brainwashed" category?

I am sure that Tim knows by now that you don't fall into that category.
Still, most members of the Washington media population seem brainwashed. At
least judging by the stuff they publicize.

>FYI, here are two bills that Feinstein introduced recently:

Sigh. She is my Senator. [Don't blame me. I voted against her. But she hits
the feelings of the Bay Area head on. "Big brother will bring you
multi-cultural happiness." She is such a hypocrite. Even carried a gun
after Moscone and Milk were shot and she thought herself in danger. Once
she felt safe again, she went on TV and said that if she could get the
votes in the Senate for total confiscation she would push for it. What's
good for the goose...]



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On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 10:39:00PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> >FYI, here are two bills that Feinstein introduced recently:
> 
> Sigh. She is my Senator. [Don't blame me. I voted against her. But she hits
> the feelings of the Bay Area head on. "Big brother will bring you
> multi-cultural happiness." She is such a hypocrite. Even carried a gun
> after Moscone and Milk were shot and she thought herself in danger. Once
> she felt safe again, she went on TV and said that if she could get the
> votes in the Senate for total confiscation she would push for it. What's
> good for the goose...]

While I am not fond of Feinstein for various reasons, there is no
contradiction whatsoever in someone carrying a gun, and also working
to outlaw them.  You deal with the realities of the world, and try to
make them better.  It would be a contradiction only if she succeeded
in outlawing them, and continued to carry one. 

She is no more hypocritical than "anarchists" who continue to milk 
the state and society in which they live.

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