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September 22, 2003

Freedom to assemble

Been getting hits from searches for that phrase, as well variations like "freedom of assemble" etc. I'm honored.

For anyone who stumbles across this site looking for serious information, here's a short excerpt from the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of special privileges for pre-assembled furniture and quasi-furniture products, from Sweden or any other country either within Scandinavia or outside, nor prohibiting the free assembly thereof; or abridging the freedom to include nonsensical diagrams and instructions or schematic drawings inside the packing materials, possibly sealed closed with heavy-duty packing tape so that said instructions or diagrams are torn irretrievably upon unpacking, or requiring that all items required for assembly actually really be included in the little plastic bag of screws inside the box, said bag which may or may not be composed of Kevlar or similar impenetrable material; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances except where prohibited by law or for stock sold at a discount.

Posted at September 22, 2003 08:55 PM
Comments

Sounds rather like a trip to Ikea to me. I could be wrong, of course. I only know about the Dutch version.

Posted by: sue at September 22, 2003 09:14 PM

Dear god... next time you do a post like this please put a warning before hand, I nearly snorted my Earl Gray all over my keyboard, laughing!

Posted by: Alexandra at September 23, 2003 05:46 PM

I just got rewarded for reading on after the first sentence.

Nice one!

Posted by: Bauke at September 27, 2003 01:10 PM

when i came here i was looking or pictures and stuff on freedom to assemble for my project but i didnt get it

this sucks

anonymous

Posted by: anonymous at March 29, 2004 04:53 AM
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