We deon't need no stinkin' subject lines

[Zscoundrel at netscape.net]

Yes, but in that is because our legal system operates under the new golden rule.  "Them with the 
gold, make the rules!"

When court cases were brought to trail, these guys all had the money to make a mockery of the trial 
in the name of self defense and bought the best "justice" that money could buy.  Now we are laughed 
at for blaming someone for making a leathal device, but punish a young man for THINKING!

It's similar to the DeCSS trial.  The big money companies REFUSED to support the technology on a 
particular platform, so a very clever young man went out and figured out how to do it.  

Now big money is dragging the young man through 9 kinds of hell because he supposedly violated 
their turf.  Even though they had absolutely no interest in it before!

<unsolicited rant> 

Until 40 or 50 years ago, this country stood for personal responsibility.  Now we are encouraged to 
blame the other guy, sue anybody that was associated, and then write a book.   

Personal initiative is punished by the court system,  hipocracy is protected by law!

</unsolicited rant>

To answer your question, I still hold the gun makers and merchants responsible, but no as much as 
the gun users.  

But since I ain't got no gold, I don't make no rules.  

(Guess that makes me a crackpot and a troublemaker!  But at least I am a very junior member of a 
very lofty crowd!)   :->

Bradley Miller <bradmiller at dslonramp.com> wrote:
>
> At 12:32 PM 2/27/01 -600, you wrote:
> So I guess that makes Benjamin Franklin not just a great womanizer, but
> also the grandfather of copyright infringement.  Maybe we should hold Jon
> Lech Johansen (DeCSS fame) and Napster up in such high regard?
> >
> >Doug Ramsey
> 
> How many of us hold Smith-Wesson responsible for gun deaths?   What about
> blaming Ford/Honda/Chevy/DiamlerChrysler because you can't drive?   I don't
> see what the big deal is with putting down Napster -- it's a tool.  What
> YOU do with it is what is legal/ethical.  They can't legislate or control
> your usage.   
> 
> For instance, last night they had on a news blurb about a drug dealer
> simulation program.  Is it right?  Is it legal?   If people begin telling
> other  people what they can and can't produce, is that right?   Hmm?
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
> 

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