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Subject: Libertarianism vs Statism
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:03:36 +0000

LIBERTARIANISM
Monterey County (California): County residents are now $250,000,000.00 richer 
thanks to a successful Libertarian effort to defeat Measure Q. This statist 
attempt at robbery would have boosted the county sales tax from 7.25% to 
7.75%. to bail out a government hospital.

STATISM
Las Vegas (Nevada): A bank customer and her fellow H.O.A. board members were 
ask by the bank for their Social Security and driver's license numbers and 
dates of birth. The bank cited the Orwellian...oops, the U.S.A. Patriot act.
"They said they had to check us against a terrorist List," said the customer.

A week earlier, the FBI in Las Vegas acknowledged agents used Patriot Act 
authorization instead of the grand jury to investigate a striptease club 
owner and several elected officials (personally I don't give a damn what the 
FBI or anyone else does to "elected officials"...they created this monster 
and deserve to be "investigated"). Incidents like this has produced a ground 
swell in Nevada for calls to repeal the act. Sounds good to me!!
Jerry

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