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1	00000001	00000001	A15	draft	A1501	A1502		Moskos, Glastris	Wash Monthly 20021104	Not enuf ppl for home se	We will not be able to meet all of our homeland defense needs with reservists. Moskos proposes a draft of 18 months, including women, no deferments, with choices of serve. A draft brings cultural awareness into the defense effort. A draft recognizes that freedom always implies shared sacrifice and the circumscription of external threats		0
2	00000002	00000001	A15	draft	A1502	A1501		JWB	OFR	Draft as slavery	A draft would constitute involuntary servitude or slavery, and would even violate the right to life by forcing one person to sacrifice himself for another. http://www.hppub.com/xchap2.htm “Do Ask Do Tell” http://www.hppub.com/nchap3.htm		0
3	00000003	00000001	A15	draft	A1503			JWB	DADT Ch 2	Draft and gay ban	A draft would have to deal with the military gay ban. It could have indirect effects on defense-related employment for gay civilians later		0
4	00000004	00000001	A15	draft	A1504	A1505		JWB	dadt site	national service	A draft should be enlarged as mandatory national service, include women, spread out over many years to serve obligation, would inculcate ethics and shared sacrifice		0
5	00000005	00000001	A15	draft	A1505	A1504		JWB	dadt site	volunteers	National service would trample effective volunteer programs		0
6	00000006		A16	terrorism	A1601			JWB	dadt 2	political problem	The Sept 11 2001 terrorist attacks on America may have a rather conventional political explanation. That is, draw the U.S into a war, mount a propaganda campaign to rouse the “Islamic” masses, and overthrow Saudi Arabia and become the “Fuehrer” of the Islamic world. There are issues about Israel, that the Clinton administration wanted the Taliban to help with an oil pipeline, etc.		0
7	00000007		A16	terrorism	A1602			JWB	dadt 2	religious aspect	The “religious” martyrdom of the Sept 11 terrorists –some well-educated and “spoiled” -- is particularly sinister. We’ve seem this before – Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, the Japanese subway attacks. Ironically, fundamentalist Islam maintains that God ordains that some people are superior to others, yet religious ideology seems to target Western-style “meritocracy.”		0
8	00000008		A16	terrorism	A1603	A1604		eff.org	eff.org	civil liberties	Recent anti-terrorist legislation may be unconstitutional and violate the 4th Amendment. Pen registers, wiretaps, Carnivore, etc. may target citizens who are not engaging in terrorism. Searches with little court protection may also do so. Profiling may occur (singling out persons of Middle-eastern origin) and there could be a slippery slope where ”victimless crime” laws (marijuana, vice, sodomy, vice) become a law enforcement tool to nab people the government only suspects of terrorism. Police often maintain that enforcing laws against minor offenses are important in reducing serious crime.		0
9	00000009		A16	terrorism	A1604	A1603		Krauthammer	Wash Post	WMD	It is absolutely imperative to maintain the intelligence and law-enforcement tools to prevent further homeland attacks with weapons of mass destruction == or else freedom becomes meaningless. A few small nukes could destroy our society.		0
10	00000010		A16	terrorism	A1605	A1606		Tom Ridge	media outlets	live normally	Americans should lead normal lives but remain vigilant. Otherwise the “terrorists win.”		0
11	00000011		A16	terrorism	A1606	A1605		McKibben	Mother Jones	solidarity/sacrifice	The attacks have, besides causing many deaths and injuries, significantly reduced our wealth and efficiency. There is no way to get around “sacrifice.” In an individualistic society, the “unlucky” or unprepared will make more sacrifices than others. “That’s the breaks.” But we need to rethink some of our values, away from consumerism and money. We need to factor in the idea of having responsibility for others. We need substance as well as short-term gratification.		0
12	00000012		B11	familyvalues	B1101	B1102	B1103	JWB	dadt 5	family wage	Families cannot compete well in a society whose contractual practices treat everything on the individual level		0
13	00000013		B11	familyvalues	B1102	B1101		Burkett	Baby Boon	cheat childless	Pro-family policies by government and employers “cheat” people who don’t have children.		0
14	00000014		B11	familyvalues	B1103	B1101		Warren	2 Income Trap	best lineage	To provide best advantages for their kids, parents feel pressured to buy overpriced homes for best school districts and take on too much debt		0
15	00000015		B12	Eldercare	B1201	B1202		ING		Long Term Care	Governments no longer want to have to provide custodial care; individuals and families should consider LTC insurance		0
16	00000016		B12	Eldercare	B1202	B1201	B1203	Siverstone	You and Your Aging Paren	filial responsibility	Maybe we need filial responsibility laws again. A few states have them, but they bascially became moot with Medicare		0
17	00000017		B12	Eldercare	B1203	B1202		Silverstone	You and Your Aging Paren	Medicaid asset depletion	Some parents give away assets to kids and file for Medicaid for nursing home Medicaid ICF eligibibility		0
18	00000018		B12	Eldercare	B1204			friend	CC	dead hand	“the dead hand” – even today wills, even after collection, can be reversed if the recipient fails to observe a condition. It may be a condition predicate or a condition subsequent. For example, it is possible that a child could forfeit an inheritance to siblings if he or she divorces within a certain number of years after receiving the bequest, or even if the child moves away from home without marriage. This is not common today in the United States; it was quite common in Victorian England.		0
19	00000019		B15	Gay marriage	B1501	B1502		Sullivan		Fundamental right	Argument: There is a fundamental right to marry, and this means that gay people should have an equal right to marry members of their own sex that straight people have to marry members of the opposite sex.		0
20	00000020		B15	Gay marriage	B1502	B1502		Conservatives		Only opposite sex	There is only a fundamental right to marry members of the opposite sex		0
21	00000021		B15	Gay marriage	B1503	B1504		Rauch	Good for America	Gay responsibility	Same-sex marriage would encourage monogamy among gays and would therefore help safeguard public health. It would also encourage gays to take responsibility for others and learn “family values”. Would need gay adoption. Encourages everyone to have a committed backup; marriage for love as well as children; but still one should know his own identity before expecting identity through a relationshio.		0
22	00000022		B15	Gay marriage	B1504	B1503	B1505	Gallagher, other		Complimentarity	Same-sex marriage undermines marriage as a social institution that others believe in, and is not credible because homosexuality is essentially narcissistic. Same sex marriage insults the idea of personal identity through blood, kinships, lineage, procreation		0
23	00000023		B15	Gay marriage	B1505	B1503		Morse		Complimentarity	Most men only learn to bond as parents with kids, outside of the adult world, through being tamed by women		0
24	00000024		B15	Gay marriage	B1506			JWB	DADT 5 arg	Moral argument	Family is the granularity of individuality; it enforces some caring for others that can be extended; to go outside of family first is cheating		0
25	00000025		B15	Gay marriage	B1507	B1507				full faith and credit	Romer and Lawreince contain languare that would void DOMA		0
26	00000026		B15	Gay marriage	B1508	B1508				public policy	states can defend their own public policy (except for animus)		0
27	00000027		B15	Gay marriage	B1509			Murray	Public Interest	governance	to avoid hurting equal protection, don't define marriage in Constitution, just specific powers		0
28	00000028		B21	AffirmAction	B2101	B2102				judge people on merit	Affirmative action should be construed as “aggressive non discrimination.” People should be chosen for educational or employment opportunities on the basis of individual merit alone, in a race, ethnicity and (in most cases) gender-blind way. It may be right to consider balancing opportunities in individual circumstances of documented economic disadvantage.		0
29	00000029		B21	AffirmAction	B2102	B2101				Group remedies	Affirmative action preferences are necessary for social justice. Protestant white males start ahead in line. And social justice can, in a practical sense, be accomplished only with reference to groups, not individuals within the groups. Most people are not ashamed to inherit group assistance.		0
30	00000030		B21	AfformAction	B2103	B2104		Exxon		Diverse representation	Affirmative action preferences provide needed diversity in campus education, as well as needed minority doctors and lawyers and other professionals for minority communities.		0
31	00000031		B21	AffirmAction	B2104	B2103				Segregation	Affirmative action preferences support an segregation mentality.		0
32	00000032	00000006	B23	Gay military	B2301	B2302		Sam Nunn		Unit cohesion	The presence of “open” gays in military units would violate the privacy of non-homosexual soldiers given the non-sexual bonding, unit cohesion, close quarters, forced intimacy, “hot bunking” and sometimes other very intimate situations (like sharing ponchos in cold weather exercises), and by definition military personnel must be deployable into any situation.		0
33	00000033	00000006	B23	Gay military	B2302	B2301		A Belkin	CSSMM	Foreign militaries	Military services of Britain, Canada, Israel and Australia have not experienced difficulties with unit cohesion or “privacy” after lifting the ban.		0
34	00000034	00000006	B23	Gay military	B2303			JWB		Live and Let Live	Gay soldiers should make open publication of sexual orientation but should serve without witch-hunts or asking or harassment.		0
35	00000035		B31	COPA	B3101			ACLU		minors definition	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act) the term “harmful to minors” is vague because it could refer to “all minors.” Then according to “community standards” web content could be determined as “harmful to minors” if it would appeal to the prurient interest of immature minors and therefore not have “serious value” to them.		0
36	00000036		B31	COPA	B3102	B3106		JWB		serious value national	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act) the term “harmful to minors” allows exclusion of material with serious value to a “legitimate minority of older minors” according to various state laws and existing case law that has interpreted the concept that way. This “third prong” is, according to case law, not affected by local community standards because the “serious value” concept is viewed as broadbased. (The “legitimate minority” idea is less clear for the first two prongs.) Thus, Sexual discussions that have legitimate (if controversial) value to older minors is not regarded as “harmful to minors” if is not more gratuitous than necessary (in attracting web traffic) to make its point To interpret this differently would put obscenity laws at risk as they apply to the Internet.		0
37	00000037		B31	COPA	B3103			Olson	oral args	commercial responsibilit	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act) commercial web publishers owe the public due diligence in protecting children since the web offers them a worldwide audience so inexpensively. And technical solutions (like adultcheck) are available now. Theoretically, this argument could be extended to say that strict scrutiny may not protect a commercial web publisher that has not shown the due diligence expected with commercial scale to protect the public. (But this gets back to money-based arguments common in business today.)		0
38	00000038		B31	COPA	B3104			Kennedy	opinion 2004	content-based restrictio	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act) a per-domain adult check would drive away traffic from content that is normally protected and normally marginally “adult”; other solutions like PICS are much less restrictive. . Also the “commercial due diligence” arguments could wind up favoring some points of view (as on “gay rights”) when presented to teenagers over others. This amounts to a content-based speech restriction, which requires least restrivtive means analysis to meet compelling state interest.		0
39	00000039		B31	COPA	B3105			3rd Circuit		denominator	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act) the phrase “taken as a whole” in the serious value prong might be hard to interpret, Does it refer to one html file, to a whole domain, or to the volume of material that a minor is prospectively expected to read and comprehend.		0
40	00000040		B31	COPA	B3106	B3102		ACLU		overbreadth	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act): the DOJ seems willing to consider the definition of HTM to essentially be restricted to pornography, inasmuch as what would be prosecuted. However, even the DOJ admits that some plaintiffs have borderline content (in terms of sexual explicitness as to sex acts and organs) that might be “harmful to minors.” A prosecutor in some community could apply his or her own interpretation of this concept on a particular domain. Although this might seem unlikely given case law on state HTM’s and on the fact that the DOJ is already conservative in its approach, the Supreme Court, in a worst case scenario, could state that HTM may be applied to adult subject matter on its face, if a prosecutor believes that a web operator is using adult content to attract attention that it cannot justify with normal business and economic scale (enough scale to offer due diligence). Thus, in a worst case scenario, only already profitable businesses could offer adult content, or newbies could get into the commerce of adult political opinion only if they did something else to establish themselves in the media or publishing worlds first. . Of course, this would interfere with the fair debate needed in the political process, so important to conservatives who disapprove of judicial activism to settle social issues.		0
41	00000041	00000004	B31	COPA	B3107			Stevens	opinion 2004	civil v criminal	For COPA (Child Online Protection Act) the civil penalties may well have a chilling effect on small web operators with “borderline” putatively HTM content. The standard of proof is less (51% - a preponderance of the evidence) and the defendant could have enormous legal bills.		0
42	00000042		B32	selfpub	B3201	B3202		JWB	dadt 2 9	authentication	“Self-publishing doesn’t count.” Self-publishing does not have the supervision and outside editing necessary to give the product credibility for the consumer. There is more credibility, and even better security and better protection of the public in sensitive content areas, if the author does not use his own money to publish commercially and some kind of “Chinese Wall” is followed. Authorship and publication, if for eventual commercial gain, should always fund from separate and independent sources.		0
43	00000043		B32	selfpub	B3202	B3201		JWB	dadt 2 9	open source	Self-publishing provides valuable content to the public and to the consumer when it would be difficult, at least for a lesser known author, for a trade publisher to justify the investment in the author in economic terms. The author is likely to feel that the ability to do this improves social credibility without giving in to the goals dictated by others.		0
44	00000044		B32	selfpub	B3203			JWB		leverage lublicity	Self-publishing on the web often involves mentioning others by name. Even if no-robots metatags are used, some search engines would pick these up and index them (at least from static HTML pages). Others may find themselves mentioned on the Net years after sime episode with which they no longer want to be publicly associated. But if the episode is of public significance (such as for public policy decisions) the First Amendment would still favor the speaker. However, it has been acceptable to write books based on personal experiences. For example, a telephone lineman wrote a novel based on the idea of listening in on lines being repaired (to fictitious conversations).		0
45	00000045		B32	selfpub	B3204			JWB		pay your dues	Self-publishing on the web often involves mentioning the writings of others as bibliographic references and footnotes or endnotes. This is expected in term papers, dissertations, and scholarly works. However, since web self-publishing is much less regulated or quality-controlled, and much larger in volume, the references might be construed as giving the author a credibility that he or she otherwise has not earned.		0
46	00000046		B32	selfpub	B3205			JWB		unauthorized links	If might be possible for web-publishing packages to adopt an icon and a convention for authorizing web linking (either any links authorized, specific sites authorized, no links authorized, or perhaps all unframed links authorized, or maybe all links from non-profit sites).		0
47	00000047		B32	selfpub	B3206			JWB		press v speech	A freelance writer was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to turn over notes on a crime. The court held that a freelance writer is not a member of the press and does not enjoy the same immunity or degree of First Amendment protection.		0
48	00000048		B32	selfpub	B3207			JWB		conflict of interest	If someone self-publishes his own idea, and works in a salaried professional capacity, then he cannot publicly represent the ideas of his employer at the same time. Therefore a selfpub writer should not have direct reports, give grades, speak for a company, or work for a fraternal company.		0
49	00000049		B32	selfpub	B3208			Runaway Jury		jury motivation	A prospective juror who might want to write an article on the trial after it is over should not be selected.		0
50	00000050		B41	sodomy laws	B4101			Blackmun	Bowers v Hardwick	left alone	There is a fundamental right to be left alone. There should be a fundamental right (for adults) to make the most intimate choices about intimacy with other consenting adults without government mediation.		0
51	00000051		B41	sodomy laws	B4102			White	Bowers v Hardwick	no fundamental right	There is “no such thing as a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy.” Claims to right to privacy must be buttressed in traditional notions of concomitant obligations, like marriage and procreation. .Sodomy laws are needed to enforce social standards and, in the views of some, to protect public health		0
52	00000052		B41	sodomy laws	B4103			Kennedy	Lawrence v Texas	autonomy	Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the State should not be a dominant presence. Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.		0
53	00000053		C12	social secur	C1201			Cato	booklet	Ponzi scheme	Social Security is essentially a Ponzi scheme. Some workers will not recover what they have paid into it. Claims that it is solvent for a long time are based on questionable accounting practices. Workers should have control and responsibility for their own retirement plans, not for those of others.		0
54	00000054		C12	social secur	C1202			FDR	New Deal	redistribute wealth	Social Security is just that. It has a tax component, to transfer wealth from those working to those not working, and that is how it started.		0
55	00000055		C12	social secur	C1203			Longman	Empty Cradle	Low birth rate	Low birth rate is the problem; relieve people who have kids resp. to pay social security tax		0
56	00000056		B11	familyvalues	B1104			Boushka	DADT	filial responsibility	Many people have only blood family to live for and feel cheated by family members who fly the coop		0
57	00000057		B11	familyvalues	B1105			Boushka	DADT	filial responsibility	Family might be all there is left if technological civilization is destroyed		0
58	00000058		B11	familyvalues	B1106			Boushka	DADT	filial responsibility	Filial respnsibility could be connected to allowing gays to marry, parent, and serve in the military		1
59	00000059		B32	selfpub	B3209			Boushka	fcps	fundamental right	In some jobs it is not always a fundamental right to publish one's own views, if they could disrupt the workplace or be viewed as self-incriminating		0
60	00000060	00000004	B31	implicit con	B3110			Boushka	website	implicit content	immature student may mimic action or feel enticed if author has no apparent reason for posting		0
61	00000061	00000007	B32	implicit con	B3210			Slaytor	Washington Post	professionalism	Employers watch applicants' sites, want them to be professionally managed by 3rd parties, and view amateur sites as conversation	B3211	0
62	00000062	00000008	B33	implicit con	B3211			Nakashima ad M S	Washington Post	others posts	rumors posted by others on web can ruin job prospects, and bloggers have no legal training as to the defamation they can commit	B3210	0
63	00000063	00000009	B12	elder single	B1205			Brian Williams	NBC Nightly	Snyderman	elderly singles may not have children to care for them bt may have to care for their own parents	B1204	1
64	00000064	00000010	B23	Gay military	B2304	B2301		SLDN	SLDN	Osburn	Gay discharges went down in Iraq war		0
65	00000065	0000	B12	eldercare	B1205			self			Coronoary bypass at 85 supports single payer		0