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From: jmm@thoth16.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU
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Subject: Re: An interesting message from SECURITY-DIGEST@RUTGERS
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In article <4639@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>If the Supreme Court says that the government has the
>right, then it does have the right!!!
>Reality is sometimes a bit uncomfortable to accept, but it is better to
>face unpleasant realities than to live in a dream world!  All else is
>just tilting at windmills.
>
>					Steve Rice
>
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If the Supreme Court says the government has the right to do something,
then that means that the government legally has the power to do it.
That does not mean that I have to accept that as being "right."
For many years it was "right" for blacks and women not having the right
to vote and for people to be kept in slavery (add your favorite injustice
to the list ...).  I think it would be hard to make a case for either of
these situations being "right."

I disagree about your tiliting at windmills concept.  Sometimes changes
can be caused by the destruction of several lances used against the 
appropriate milling machine.  What you think of as immutable might
not exist tomorrow.

James Moore
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