XPost: alt.history.future   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:32:21 -0500, "Erol K. Bayburt"   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.history.future:   
      
   > On 24 Oct 2008 23:10:56 GMT, "Dan Goodman"   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >>What will the "eternal" principles of conservatism be in 2108?   
      
   > An Ashcroftian level of support for the 1st, 4th, and 5th   
   > Ammendments.   
      
   Which is to say practically none.   
      
   > Conservatives of 2108 will quote John Ashcroft and Robert   
   > Bork in support of freedom of speech, freedom from   
   > arbitrary searches, freedom from compelled   
   > self-incrimination, etc. (within proper limits, of   
   > course, they're not loony liberaterians) against a   
   > mainstream view that such "rights" are archaic and   
   > dangerous, have no place in civilized modern society, and   
   > ought to be intrepreted out of the Constitution.   
      
   Can't say that I'd care to read a story set in such a   
   milieu, unless perhaps it were about the extra-planetary   
   escape of some sane but persecuted minority.   
      
   Brian   
      
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