Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site teldata.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!shad From: shad@teldata.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Re: Selective enforcement ... (what socialist thinking?) Message-ID: <373@teldata.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 11:49:38 EDT Article-I.D.: teldata.373 Posted: Tue Jun 5 11:49:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 07:14:25 EDT References: <346@teldata.UUCP> <934@dciem.UUCP> <365@teldata.UUCP> <1772@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA Lines: 28 * Have you ever wondered where the term 'rights' came from? This concept is one of 'rights' and 'wrongs', and owes its origins to the anglo/saxon tradition that was finally embodied in the Common Law of England. By what value system were rights and wrongs to be measured? What value system embodies the concepts of 'truth', 'justice', 'oaths', 'honor', 'respect', 'morality' and not bearing false witness and many other words and concepts in our legal language? Every court that I know in the United States still administers an oath that ends, "... and nothing but the truth, so help me God." Perhaps it is my use of God that offends you. Thomas Jefferson, in basing the foundation for a new People of separate and equal station, used the word Creator. The concept is the same in my mind. I agree, though, it does seem that God is no longer with our judicial system. Or is it that our judicial system is no longer with God? I am willing to move this discussion to net.religion if you feel it is illegal. Yours in God and Freedom, Warren N. Shadwick