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Thus Spake klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>:

%> %Then your argument is that THEY get to shoot US up, but we have to
%> %just sit and take it?
%> 
%> My argument is that the United States has political and legal institutions
which
%> allow for peaceful and legal redress of wrongs.
%
%And do they inevitable guarantee that justice prevails? The fear is that
%increasingly justice is less important to the powers-that-be than is
%corruption or party politics.

No, they don't.  What does?  Unless you have God himself sitting on the jury, it
will be composed of fallible humans.  Justice will not be served every time.
Such is the price of being human.  But American political and legal institutions
are more likely to produce a just result than most other arrangements.  


%> Use them instead of going out
%> with your redneck buddies and declaring yourself an 'independant country' and
%> shooting the hell out of anyone who goes near your compound.
%
%Most of us do, jeeze. You post as if you think that everyone in the NRA
%is a secessionist. Most of us are nowhere near that point because for
%the most part, that point has come nowher enear us.

Every time I post something to the effect of 'push your political agendas all
you like, but don't shoot anyone' some redneck posts "Well, what about Waco?" or
whatever.


John M. Atkinson
jatkinso@gmu.edu
"A nation which despises its soldiers will all too soon 
have a despicable army
                 --Jerry Pournelle