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Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Sun, 26 Dec 1999 00:14:20 GMT
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Underlying assumption of the article given are taken over by me,
overstated ridiculousness ignored.
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 06:00:17 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:
> * Every December 25, the illegal immigrant known as Santa Claus
> crosses the border into the United States without a passport. He
> carries concealed contraband, which he sneaks into the country in order
> to avoid inspection by the U.S. Customs Service. And just what's in all
> those brightly colored packages tied up with ribbons, anyway? General
> Barry "Just Say No to Santa" McCaffrey wants to know.
How do you expect the economy to cope with an unlimited influx of
immigrants?
> * Look at how this international fugitive gets around: Santa
> flies in a custom-built sleigh that hasn't been approved by the FAA. He
> never files a flight plan. He has no pilot's license. In the dark of
> night, he rides the skies with just a tiny bioluminescent red light to
> guide him -- a clear violation of traffic safety regulations.
Anyone who doesn't want airplanes to be certified safe and file flight
plans with flight control is obviously on crack.
Your right to fly 100 tonnes of dead metal filled with 20 tonnes of
highly-flammable fuel ends above my house.
> * No wonder Santa is able to maintain his monopoly over the toy
> distribution industry: He's cornered the Christmas gift market. Santa
> dares to give away his products for free in a sinister attempt to crush
> all competition -- just like Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Antitrust
> Lawsuit Memo to Janet Reno: Is Santa Claus the Bill Gates of Christmas?
So now antitrust laws are bad too?
Jasper
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