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Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
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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From: russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper
Date: 1998/05/10
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