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From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
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Subject: Re: The Bill of Rights: A luxury of simpler times?
Summary: You can lead a horse to water ...
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Date: 18 Jan 90 17:42:11 GMT
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In article <11450@venera.isi.edu>, ipser@vaxa.isi.edu (Ed Ipser) writes:
> Last September, a Washington Post-ABC News Poll discovered:
> 
>    62 percent of those questioned said they would be willing to give up
>    "a few of the freedoms we have in this country" to significantly
>    reduce illegal drug use.

	... ad nauseum ...

> Ask for 50 (maximum allowed) copies of the Constitution.  Distribute them
> to your friends and associates.  The more people who have a copy, the
> more secure is our liberty.

I wish I believed this, but generating an understanding and love
for liberty is much more complex than passing out copies of the
Constitution.  What the poll you quote clearly is that the
majority of Americans are willing to sacrifice vital freedoms for
the promise of a safer(?) land.  As a wise man once said, those
who are willing to sacrifice liberty for security shall have
neither. 

Russell