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ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) wrote:

>We certainly are receiving a significant benefit from the legislation: a
>safer country to live in. Your individual rights have to be balanced

How do you know? Does some spirit whisper truths into your ear that
are not available to the rest of us, or was it a burning bush that
told you? Maybe it was beamed directly into your brain by a 
passing LGM?

Even Rock won't make that bald a statement, preferring to
stick with semantic nulls that sound good.

All the evidence is against you. If you leave out the tidy little
police states that have harsh gun controls and even harsher 
citizen controls, more violent crime follows victim disarmament
laws as day follows night. Equally, reduced controls (like Florida's
new concealed-carry provision) result in reduced violent crime
rates. 

My best guess is that Southam's manufactured crime wave was becoming
too obviously just that, and the PMO came to the conclusion
that they needed the real numbers to match the propaganda. C-68,
C-128, and early parole for violent criminals should satisfy
that objective quite handily, and provide the required reasons for
giving the government more intrusive and arbitrary powers. With the 
PC in dissarray, the Liberals are planning for the long haul - and 
'ti-Jean Cretien has a lot of getting even to do.

C-68 is a boon to criminals. It is also a boon to tidy
little police states, because it adds one more country to 
those that will not be sources of the small arms used by dissidents
and freedom fighters to resist their regimes. 

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        Cheers,
                Marc

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