[TriLUG] Sen. Hatch at it again... ???

[Patrick Williams]

Our government has run amok because "we the people" have become
disinterested in what it was, a republic.  Somehow, teachers have convinced
us that we are a pure democracy in which a 51% to 100% majority vote will
obtain as truth.  Thus a man is guilty of murder if the jury votes he is
guilty, and a law becomes the way of life if the proper majorities vote that
it be passed and the President does not veto it.

But alas, voting does not make anything right or wrong or true!  If we all
vote that the Earth is flat, will that flatten it?  I think not because that
was tried once in our history until ol' C. Columbus made a mockery of it.

If you don't like Hatch, then start a campaign against him, but before you
do, you might want to find out what a precinct executive is and why we
really don't have free elections in this country.  What we have are
candidates who are puppets of their respective parties.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus" <chrish at trilug.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Sen. Hatch at it again...


>
> On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Roy Vestal wrote:
>
> > C.H. - This isn't pointed at you but the gov't. I'm tired of their "We
> > are the gov't, bow down because we are in charge" attitude. First, they
> > aren't, we the people are. The American people have seem to forgotten
> > that they work for us, not the other way around.
>
> The government is not the solution to the problem; the government *is*
> the problem.
>
> But WRT the Hatch plan, it is worse than that.  Hatch is endorsing a
> sort of vigilante justice that completely bypasses the judicial system
> and the government itself.
>
> > It's just wrong. To me, this is worse than the RIAA and DCMA
> > bills that we've seen.
>
> This isn't even a bill yet.  The only reason this is big news is
> because of who is floating these ideas.  Hatch is a powerful man, and
> very influential, but I don't know that he would get very far passing
> actual legislation that permitted this.
>
> Then again, some of the other asinine legislation that has been passed
> lately casts all of that into doubt.
>
> Has anyone seen my country lately?  I seem to have misplaced it.
>
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