[Cialug] Telecom Immunity

[Stuart Thiessen]

Just my 2cents.

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The rule of law only works when both the leadership and the people are  
willing to submit to the law. When we adopt a whatever-benefits-me  
mentality, then the rule of law becomes meaningless because those in  
power will do whatever benefits them. Frankly, I see this whatever- 
benefits-me mentality pervading American society and it will hurt us.  
This is true whether it comes from the people or the leadership.

The Soviet Constitution is a case in point. The Soviet leadership did  
not deny themselves what they denied to the general population. The  
current situation in Zimbabwe is another example.

America was successful in the past because we did our best to follow a  
whatever-benefits-us-as-a-nation mentality. We weren't perfect, but  
that was the general trend ... until now. Now it is a "whatever- 
benefits-my-special-interests-and-hurts-my-ideological-opponents"  
mentality ... on all sides.

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Call me a cynic, but that's what I see.

Stuart
On Jul 10, 2008, at 11:49 , Nathan Stien wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Colin Burnett  
> <cmlburnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest, to whomever in general, reading Restoring the Lost
> Constitution by Randy Barnett:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_the_Lost_Constitution
>
> Either the constitution allows this spying crap and the other  
> usurpations, or it has been powerless to stop them.  In either case,  
> I must question its usefulness; the Soviet Union "guaranteed" free  
> speech in their constitution, too [1].  And that worked out  
> famously.  Paper tigers.
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union
>
> - Nathan
>
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