Heh, I suppose I should have been clearer and indicated that I am 
against the death penalty in ALL situations... heh...  I certainly don't 
want to be lumped in with Cherokee .

Col Sanders

P.S.  I agree with your general thrust there, as I am a Libertarian....

The Mad Hatter wrote:

>There are three good reasons that the Death Penalty is a dead issue in
Canada. The Killer M's, David Millgard, Donald Marshall, and Guy Paul
Morin.
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>All three of these gentlemen were convicted of murder, all exonerated.
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>For those who say it couldn't happen in the USA, I suggest you look at
Illinois where in the last 10 years 23 inmates who were on death row were
later found innocent.
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>The point of this being (for both Sanders and Cherokee who seem unable
to find it) is that government is best kept starved and inoffensive, so
that it cannot interfere with the lives of the citizens. All governments
should be kept this way - consider Saddam Hussein if his government was
defanged. He'd end up looking like the Stay-Pufft Marshmellow Man.
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>Government is not he solution to the problem - it is the problem.
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>The only good politician is a dead one (they don't raise taxes).
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>The best government is the least government, and the least government
is no government at all.
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>Taxation is theft.
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>Why is the U.S. Government so hard on the Mafia? They don't like competition.
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>The Mad Hatter - Radical to the Bone
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>>So violating the law is ok as long as it results in something
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