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Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper

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From: Rob Rodgers
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 00:00
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Tom Alciere <talciere@xtdl.com> wrote:
>Just doing their job.  ["But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations,
>pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under
>absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off such
>Government."]

Did you swallow a Bartletts or something?

>Take a tour of the Holocaust Museum (14th and D, SW, careful you don't get
>forced onto the bridge to Va.) to see what happens when people let the
>government goons demand

Oh my.  Bad form, kid.  You should wait at least three messages before
jumping to Nazi analogies.

>If the goons don't want a drunk 19-year-old picking up a heavy rock and
>smashing their head with it when they are pinned down, they shouldn't have
>raised their right hand and solemnly threatened to uphold and enforce the
>unjust laws of unjust governments, IMHO.

Zzzzz.
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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Rob Rodgers)
Subject: Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper
Date: 1998/05/10
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