🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <whichever>  Kevin Lowey mentions that he runs a BBS 
on which he can do whatever he pleases.  This is not meant as
scarasm, just necessary to make my point:  Is it equipped for
the handicapped?

Sure, if you own your *own* computer, you can do whatever you want
with it.  Try denying access to a black person sometime!  You are 
_still_ subject to _some_ laws!  If you *did* deny access, and if
the person decided to take it to court, you'd be in *hot water* .

And if you received any federal funds, and wanted to *continue*
receiving them, then you'd do what the government required when you
set your policy!

Even private things like apartment complexes owned by private business
must go along with the government (or loose a *lot* of things like
subsidized insurance, even if they don't get direct federal money) .
A bus driver employed by the *city* couldn't kick someone off his bus!
Or if Greyhound got *any* kind of federal assistance, and a driver violated 
federal law, it wouldn't be cut and dried.

Usenet may be privately owned, and may set their policy, 
but as I said -- if they say "No Asians have a RIGHT to use our
computers to take over America"  I'll be it wouldn't be their policy
for long! :-)

*You* don't have the right to use YOUR computer if it violates the 
law!

Or your bus, or whatever ...

Scary?

#include "stddisclaimer.h"
#include "signature.h"

Scott McMahan