From: Seth Oestreicher <setho@westnet.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:49:41 +0800
To: Arun Mehta <amehta@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
Subject: Re: American People the relation to the Police
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At 09:34 AM 7/21/96 +0600, you wrote:
>At 08:56 20/07/96 -0400, you wrote:
>> Why
>>is foreign aid allowed to continue when it is not allowed by the
>>Constitution?  (I could go on and on.....)  
>
>Isn't there a gap between "not allowed" and "disallowed"? The
>Constitution couldn't possibly have foreseen the problems of
>today, and the global role the US plays (or seeks to).
>Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta@cpsr.org
>http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/  finger amehta@cerfnet.com for public key


That's like saying the Bible is outdated because it was written several
thousand years ago.  If the law must change debate it, vote on it, and
implement it.  Don't circumvent it!  I mean should we take away free speech
because more people lie today than ever before in history?  Or should we
take away our religous rights because of the David Koresh's of the world?
Should we take away the guns of the people because less than 30,000 people a
year die of gunfire?  (less than .01% of the nation!)  Should we take away
the double jeopardy clause just because O.J. Simpson *IS* guilty?

Seth