EP>MS>EP>MS>        Given the current composition of the court, I wouldn't 
sk
  >MS>  >MS>either. And with Clinton appointing justices,
  >MS>  >MS>which is why, I suspect,
  >MS>  >MS>Mr. Justice Rhenquist hasn't retired and won't as long as his 
healt
  >MS>  >MS>holds out, I'd be extremely reticent about putting the whole of 
the
  >MS>  >MS>Second Amendment on the block.
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EP>MS>EP>        You're right, I'm afraid. I'd put this in the "last ditch
  >MS>  >        defense" category. Ernie P.
EP>MS>        Not last ditch, last tripwire. At some point, they'll bring the
  >MS>wrath of God down on their heads, and that's most likely where it will
  >MS>happen. When it becomes the perception that the Supreme Court has taken
  >MS>to amending rights out of existance by judicial activism, then the last
  >MS>legitimate bastion of the old Republic will have burned the bridge at
  >MS>the Rubicon for the Federal Government.
EP>        I always wondered why all revolutions seem to involve the
  >        killing of the educated, the leaders, the elite of society. Then
  >        I looked around.
        Tends to happen a lot when the Nomenklatura tries to impose a
revolution from the top down.
EP>MS>        And then, all hell will break loose.
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EP>        If it ever does, those who caused it will not survive it. EP
        Not if I have any say about it.
EP>MS> X SLMR 2.1a X "Four riders appeared, and the wind, began, to howl"...
EP>        That quote is from...? Ernie P.
        A strange little book called Gerry Reith's Neutron Gun. Mostly
it was a howl of rage with literary pretentions and one dystropian
vision after another, but had he have not committed suicide, Reith could
well have become a master of the darker kind of metaphor. The other
contributors to that book weren't bad, but Reith had a malevolent irony
that in places was quite entertaining, assuming that one shares an
appreaction for malevolent irony.
        That particular line of Reith's came at the end of a not too
terribly bad story that had another line of note:"Slaves have nothing to
spend except their lives,..........."
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 X SLMR 2.1a X "Any soul is worth saving but few are worth buying."
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