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p>On the other end of the spectrum, we have to obey the laws. We can't pay three year's taxes out of every five. We can't shield documented proof of lawbreaking in our office (or anywhere else) from law enforcement. What's more we can't understand and don't wish to tolerate elite folks that don't think they need to obey the laws that we obey. Whether it is immigration or political corruption, we must first enforce the current laws. We can determine any new laws needed after we see the enforcement. That enforcement has to start at the top with George Bush. I want to see some business folks sitting in jail for violating the laws against hiring illegals. Let us not forget that they too are getting amnesty. br> -- Ken Shreve /p>

This is precisely how an unprincipled pragmatic political process cheapens everything that has been paid for in blood, sweat and tears to the point that the argument isn't about the right thing to do (Rule of Law) but the convenient thing to do (pragmatic) for political gains. This is why the Founders of our Republic feared Democracies almost as much as they feared a strong central government. You will have no rule of law if the meaning of words changes with the political winds.

-- "Three thousand tyrants one mile away or one tyrant 3000 miles away," from the movie Patriot

-- "Liberalism is an easy choice to make; it requires no effort to be liberal," Rush Limbaugh

p>Conservatism is not a choice; it is a way of life. You live conservatism; you choose to be liberal. Professional politicians choose to throw any principles they have to the winds because it is the easy choice to make. If the general population holds no principles dear, those in Congress simply have to make an easy choice. They don't have to live the values they ran under. br> -- Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p> p> "A MODEST PROPOSAL" br> Re: R. Andrew Newman's

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