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Where, oh where, is that "ultra-conservative Supreme Court" that the Dems like to talk about handing the election to GWB? Well, this just shows how important 2004 is going to be.
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What is so liberal about the court ruling the government should not have the right to barge into the bedroom of consenting adults and tell them how they can love each other? Sounds pretty conservitive to me. [/QUOTE]No, that's libertarian. Conservatives want government limited to its proper roles, like defense. Libertarians want it to have as little role as possible in anything. [/QUOTE]Attalus, I think you shot yourself in the foot on this one -- vis a vis your earlier post I mean. Unless you can make some argument that telling me what I can do with my penis in my bedroom is a "proper role," like defense. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]
The right to privacy is my most treasured right. Privacy is disappearing, folks. It is a right we are losing. And, the sad fact is we are generally voluntarily giving this right away every time we shrug our shoulders when big corps. amass personal information about us and sell it amongst themselves. This may be one of the last big victories for privacy that we see.
Once we've given all our personal info to our credit card companies, eBay, and message boards, once we've let reality TV come into our bedrooms for the nth time, once we've all got websites with our personal at-home cameras filming our lives, we will not have a leg to stand on when the government walks back into our bedrooms to do a "masturbation check." (Yes, masturbation is still illegal in some states -- I think Scalia should move there and leave us the HELL alone.)