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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 00:00
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In article <6j2ubm$jv0@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>, Matt Walcoff <mwalcoff@wam.umd.edu> wrote: }Now come on; the way to changing a law is not through violence. All }that would do is "prove" to conservatives that young people are }immature by nature. } }Drinking-age reform proponents need not resort to violence because we }have the facts on our side. The drinking age is hypocritical, }unenforcable, counterproductive and segregatory. 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? -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9144,78a23a71dde3797a X-Google-Attributes: gidf9144,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,78a23a71dde3797a X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 101cd0,78a23a71dde3797a X-Google-Attributes: gid101cd0,public From: russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) Subject: Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper Date: 1998/05/10 Message-ID: <6j51ps$9eh@netaxs.com> X-Deja-AN: 352017735 References: <6ivo94$9ou@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980509132018.11477A-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> <3554CECA.3756@overthrow.com> <6j2ubm$jv0@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Organization: Ghotinet Newsgroups: um.general,alt.politics.drinking-age,dc.general