D. Jay Newman wrote:
>> I don't know about Tony, but as long as there are protections for
>> the minority, can you think of a better long-term solution?
>>     
>
>   
>> ^Yes I can think of better solutions. AGSC  Rather than get into those,
>> tell me where protection for minorities exist in the US for example ?
>> AGSC^
>>     
>
> There are many legal protections embedded both in the US Constitution
> and also in law.
>   
These protections are VERY selectively enforced. For example, the US 
constitution says that
"Legal tender consists of gold and silver coin."  But all such backing 
of US currency stopped
years ago. When I was a teenager, I could redeem a dollar for a genuine 
SILVER specie dollar.
Go to ANY bank and ask to redeem your dollar in gold or silver these 
days, and you will be
arrested on your way out. If the ACLU removes "In God We Trust" off the 
dollar, we will lose the
only protection we have left.. Who changed the Consitution's meaning 
since 1963?

> The system isn't perfect, but it's not as bad as it seems.
>   

I am very disappointed with the selective way the Constitution is 
enforced. Younger folks don't know
the way it was, once, but there was a time when no law enforcement 
officer could break into the sanctity
of a person's home without a SERIOUS court order. These days, they just 
fill out a 3"x5" card and start
pounding away on the wrong house. The Supreme court ruled recently that 
anybody's house could be
declared forfeit and torn down just because when the newer  house is 
built, the community can have greater
tax revenue. Yet, nobody else seems to care... so why should I?

--Bob

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