From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.bush,talk.bizarre,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: Liberals want to remove Admendment #10? (was Re: rmgroup alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Date: 9 Nov 1992 23:34:33 GMT
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In article <1992Nov9.225116.7508@novell.com> bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
>>
>>See, what it says is that the powers which aren't delegated to
>>the United States by the Constitution, or prohibited by it to
>>the States, are reserved to the States, right, or to the people.
>
>Hmmm, I guess Austin's water is low of clueides because I'm confused
>also.

This appears to be a pretty common phenomenon all round; I
suggest we get a blue-ribbon Congressional committee to
look into it.

>Here's a for instance: suppose I get my jollies juggling whiffle
>balls.  Do I have a right to juggle whiffle balls?

Shit, you can juggle whatever you want as long as you don't juggle
_my_ whiffle balls.  Because a man's whiffle ball is his castle.
Yeah.  And I don't know bout you but I got _arrow slits_ in my
castle - and a portcullis too.  Yup.  Let's see the Federal Burro
of Investy-gation try to get past that there portcullis.

>What I think is that it is saying that various _powers_ that gov't are
>wont to be exercising are reserved for the States or people if not
>explicitly delegated to the U.S.  Powers, not rights.  IMHO, the US
>gov. is around to protect my rights (not that it has been doing that
>good a job of it granted).  If Texas tries to step in and say I don't
>have a right to juggle whiffle balls, I cry foul and try to get the
>U.S. to protect my whiffle ball juggling right.

No, it's the other way around.  Texas can do whatever it wants
to your whiffle balls.  See, when the U.S. was founded, Texas
was one of the Great Powers of the Southeast and could have sliced
its butt any time it chose and twice on Sundays.  So the people
who wrote the Constitution went to great lengths to avoid pissing
off Texas.

What it says is that, since the Constitution does not explicitly grant
Uncle Sam the power to take away your whiffle balls, yell "nyah nyah
nyah" and sentence you to forty years of rock-busting for unlawful use
of plastic in a public place, if Uncle Sam takes away your whiffle
balls etc. etc., Texas can pipe up and say, "Yo Sammy boy!  Ain't be
doin dat shit."  

And if Uncle Sam abides and persists in such activities as have been
deemed contrary to constitutional law, Tex can step in, bust his ass,
and throw him right out the door in a defined manner according to law.

Now the problem here as I think you can see is that the Texas National
Guard is all full of middle-aged rednecks with Budweiser bellies, wide
belts, and lizard-skin boots who would have some trouble bustin Oprah
Winfrey's ass let alone Uncle Sam's, seein as the latter is just
crawlin with these psycho nineteen-year-olds, got muscles and every
kind of lethal weaponry.

And in addition, they Communists.  The lot of them.  So you kin
see where the troubles a this country is comin from.

Now what we need to do is, bring the Mexicans in, huge fuckers all
stoked up on that primo sensi they grow down there, you know the stuff
is so good it's like roids, it swells you all up till you've got
muscles in places you couldn't find with a geography textbook, you go
to some of the villages down there in the mountains where the real
pure stuff grows and you'll see guys look like a cross between the
Hulk and Cheech Marin, smoking joints the size of your elbow.  These
people are killers, they stop at nothing, and they are on the side of
Right.  And I feel this makes them perfectly suited to enforce the
United States Constitution according to a manner as previously defined
in law etc. etc.

>Why do I think whiffle ball juggling is a right?  Because of my right
>to privacy (which has been pointed out was been brought before the
>S.C.  before Roe v. Wade) - I have the right to be left to myself, to
>pursue my affairs as I see fit.

I hate to say this, boy, it hurts me to, but you sir are out to lunch
in an accelerated kind of way.

c
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