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Re: One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:58:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> You would be well served not to use "West Wing" as your basis for research,
> or even for sound bites. It's terribly biased in the statist/socialist
> direction
I've never watched the show, but I'm given to wonder if the people to whom
it's marketed are themselves disposed to the sort of government depicted on
the small screen. I'm loathe to use the term "statist" since it's become
something of a hot-button word, but I'm curious whether the writers are just
writing what the viewership wants to hear. And why not? It's
entertainment, after all (except to Canadians, apparently!) 8^)
> and the writers are quite skillful at twisting things to their own
> ends, as they have happily admitted.
And it's important for our neighbors to the North to recall that the show
is Fiction, and we shouldn't base national policy on that show any more than
we base the space program on Star Trek (but maybe we should re-work national
lifeguard policy based on TV. Hmm...)
> Think for yourself.
Now you're just talking crazy.
> A law preventing cream in coffee is indeed unconstitutional, as are about
> 98% of the rest of the laws we have nowadays. The mere fact that courts
> don't find that way doesn't mean that it isn't unconstitutional, just that
> the constitution has been mostly abrogated.
This point has come up before in other forms, but there's something that's
always messed me up. I thought (but am happy to be corrected) that the
Supreme Court has Constitutionally-granted authority to judge the
Constitionality of laws. Am I wrong in this?
Dave!
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