Re: Communications Decency Act (was Re: 2nd Sight)

[bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

Soenke Behrens (sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Hrrm, excuse me, but that is just too hilarious. Yeah, he's a nut (as
: seem to be quite some Democrats, see Clinton and the Clipper Chip). 

: But left-wing? Maybe everything seems left if you're that far right
: . comparing Apples to Oranges (i.e. German parties to US ones), both
: Republicans and Democrats are well right of what we consider a "right"
: party here. None of the mainstream parties here is truly left, maybe
: moderate middle or whatever.

: But then, you would probably disagree and class them all as loony
: lefty commie libs ... so, even "left" and "right" are subjective
: terms. Interesting, innit?

  I agree that "left" and "right" as used in the US don't mean much.
Both parties tolerate individual liberty only enough to get elected;
then both parties stomp all over your rights: the Democrats can't
keep their grubby paws out of my wallet, and the Republicans want to 
install video cameras in my bedroom and make sure I don't make any 
political statements they don't like.

  One day, people that support the principles of individual liberty
might actually make it to Congress. (The last time this happened was
1787 - since then, Americans have treated the Constitution as
only so much paper, to be ignored when it becomes inconvenient
to their desire to tax those rich bastards into oblivion or burn
those damn witches). To get a principled Congress today would of course 
require a general American population with principles, the probability 
of which I leave to the reader to determine.

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