🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6j5onf$t5j@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>,
Brian C. Merrell <merrell@eng.umd.edu> wrote:
}In article <6j51ps$9eh@netaxs.com>,
}	russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

}> Facts are useless things.  As long as the other side has numbers (of people),
}> money, influence, and the ability to wave the bloody shirt, all the
}> facts in the world are powerless against them.  After all, what's
}> potential lives lost against a little freedom lost, nowadays? 
}
}[pullin' out the old Bartlett's...]
}
}"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary 
}safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
}  --Benjamin Franklin

_I_ agree.  But the driving-age increasing, drinking-age increasing,
"protect the children at all costs" Baby Boomers (yes, the very same
ones who got the drinking age lowered for themselves) don't.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."