🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6j51ps$9eh@netaxs.com>,
	russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> In article <6j2ubm$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? 

[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

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