On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:22:50 -0400, brian bennett
<shpoym@mindspring.com> wrote:

>"Peter H. Proctor" wrote:

>>         People don't put up statues in New York Harbor to "The Nanny
>> State".   Nor does a female personification of the Nanny State show up
>> on US bullion coins....  Nor does the constitution say "to secure the
>> blessings of the Nanny State......"
>
>oh great, *now* they will ;^)

       Next,  the revisionists will claim that our forefathers
"brought forth a new nation, conceived in the Nanny State " <G> and
that the Declaration of Independence mentions " Life, the Nanny
State...etc..

        Point being,   our whole history and social ethos is permiated
by the concept of "liberty".    In fact,  where the constitution uses
"state" in the abstract,  it is the "free state" of the second
amendment,  of which a generally-armed population is the best defense.
Any questions ?

Dr P