Lewis Napper's Bill Of No Rights

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  1. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    http://web.archive.org/web/20030801200633/http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0010/campaign2000.html

    http://www.fightthebias.com/Resources/Humor/bill_of_no_rights.htm

    In the first days of the Clinton presidency, as taxes increased and the administration plotted a takeover of the nation's health care system, Napper grew sick of watching as "our true rights were eroded, always in the name of giving everyone some new imaginary 'right.' "

    One day in 1993, after hearing a Hillary Clinton speech on the radio, Napper had had enough.

    He skipped his lunch break at a computer consulting job, and sat down at his keyboard to bang out a response.

    In less than an hour, he had written the "Bill of No Rights," which became "the e-mail heard 'round the world."

    Napper, 41, now the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, didn't expect his essay -- a tart 10-point list of "rights" Americans don't have -- to become an Internet legend.

    In fact, he said, he first sent the essay, which has now been "read by millions," to just a few friends.

    "I'll have to admit that it was really just a way for me to blow off steam and try to make a few friends laugh," said the Jackson-area computer programmer.

    But the manifesto did more than make people laugh. It struck a chord.

    Says Napper's preamble: "A whole lot of people were confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of No Rights."...............


     
  2. chris_in_pdx

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    This guy sounds like a grade-a douchebag.
     

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