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[Help!  I'm being gobbled up by a Line Eater Monst...]

Ray Frank writes about the ACLU:  

> Here in Rochester the ACLU prevented the police dept. from issuing good
> driving tickets to motorists deserving them.  It was only a good will drive
> by the police dept.,  but the ACLU said it was unconstitutional.

Maybe some people didn't *want* to be stopped on the road, to
have their licenses and the interiors of their cars inspected by
police, merely so the department could, as a ``good will drive,''
issue ``good driving tickets to motorists deserving [sic] them.''  
It seems to me to be a quite elementary Constitutional protection
that persons be stopped and questioned by police only when they are
doing something *wrong*, not when they are doing everything *right*!  

> When that 15 yr. old Russian boy wanted to stay in America and not leave the
> country with his parents several years ago, the ACLU said he must go back.

I don't agree that the boy should've been forced to go back to Russia.  
(What's the whole story of the ACLU's involvement in this case, anyway?)  
*However*, Frank, aren't *you* the person who's always claiming that
parents should have *complete control* over the minds and bodies of
their children, particularly in cases where (*shudder*) the child might
learn to think *differently* from his parents' beliefs?  Isn't enforcing
their ``parental rights,'' as you describe them, over the will and mind
of their child *precisely* what the boy's parents were attempting to do?  

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