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From: joe@logi-dc.UUCP (Joe Dzikiewicz)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Usenet access: this "fascism" nonsense
Summary: clarification on basic documents...
Message-ID: <173@logi-dc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 21:44:08 GMT
References: <1288@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <511@fig.bbn.com>
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In article <511@fig.bbn.com>, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>
> And, in an effort to prove that he is either unaware of the fundamental
> documents of the US,* or to prove that Max is write, Bob Webber writes:
> >There is no more or less a ``right to Usenet Access'' than there is a
> >right to ``life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.''  
> 

Hate to tell you this, but there is no legal right to "the pursuit of 
happiness" in this here USA.  That phrase comes from the Declaration of
Indiana (or something like that).  Said document has no legal weight.

The applicable right in the Constitution is, I believe, in the 14th amendment
and reads

	"...right to life, liberty, and property..."

Thus, you have the right to property, but not the right to pursue happiness
with your property.  Thus, Bob Webber is apparently not so unaware of our
fundamental documents as may seem at first glance...

			Joe Dzikiewicz
			joe@logi-dc