>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@datamann.com>
>By my standards, there are some states in the US that are relatively free,
>but
>that is being eroded by the continuing federalization of many 'crimes'. The
>US
>as a whole used to be very free, at least for most people.
"Most people"? If you eliminate the poor, all blacks, natives, and
non-European immigrants (not to mention all children and females, regardless
of race or class) you are left with those for whom the US "used to be very
free" - adult, wealthy, white males. IMO that hardly constituted "most
people."
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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