From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Constitution and the Citizen
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:10:04 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Both fascinating and reassuring.  Some 18th and 19th Century issues
are effectively dead, but the issue of individual rights versus the central
state is very much live.  I disagree with people shooting at park rangers
unless the ranger is guilty of a specific crime and even then the
hypothetical criminal ranger should be arrested and tried, not arbitrarily
shot.  That's what we have police, courts and elections for.
	As a current civil servant, I believe that our mutual interests in
government are best met by a constitutional and effective government of
limited power, not an all powerful one.  Having only limited power is a
great aid to using it wisely and morally.			Lee on the
Right

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Newton [mailto:bnewton at ashcomp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:46 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Constitution and the Citizen

Fascinating that 226 years after the founding of the nation, the basic
arguments which preceded it are still going on.  They are also reflected in
the shifts of power at the Federal level, and even more pointedly in places
where very serious states rights advocates shoot at park service staff and
forest rangers.

As a career (and now retired) civil servant, I have a strong interest in a
powerful and effective central government.  If only the power could be used
a little more wisely and, dare I say, morally.

Barry

At 08:44 AM 4/9/02, you wrote:
>         Ron, Agree with most of your comments.  An unchecked Federal
>Government would be a powerful, oppressive and repugnant tyranny, and I
work
>to prevent that.  I therefore support states' rights and other legitimate
>checks on the central state.

Barry L. Newton, Ashton Computing & Management Services
bnewton at ashcomp.com