Posted on 04/18/2013 2:53:36 PM PDT by Renfield
I have never heard a single libertarian say child rape is ok.
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They will tell you it should be up to the State to decide.
Now. Doesn’t that solve everything?
Again, I have never heard a libertarian say child rape is ok, at any level.
It isn’t legal to drive under the influence of any narcotic or other substance that would impair one’s ability to drive - including mj, booze, NyQuil, whatever. Legalizing a substance doesn’t legalize operating heavy machinery while using that substance.
Again, I have never heard a libertarian say child rape is ok, at any level.
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You’re missing the point. While a libertarian might personally be against child rape, they are OK with it if indeed that citizens of that state vote fot it.
On the basis a lib can support laws encouraging or allowing child rape makes them just as guilty as the low-life scums that actually do it.
Tolerance is acceptance.
Many (not all) in the libertarian wing of both parties have given same sex marriage the support to what we see now. They remind me of being like liberals because they ignore morality. They say they believe in the founding principles of our nation then say we should be allowed to do anything we decide to. Every person needs direction of a right and a wrong/rule of law that goes back to the beginning of this country. I will never be one nor an independent. Notice, most (if not all), of the independents voted against the filibuster. What was that all about.
Sure...tell that to a person who has the protection of a
law that a certain drug is legal. Yes, people are under the
influence now, though this is not the way the go. Smoke your crap, keep me out of it, like the gay crap.
I like this! It will make Democrat Lawmakers heads explode! This is right out of Alansky's book. Obama and the Just-Us Department don't want to give up that power but this goes right to their core constituency. This is another one that they can't win.
The war on drugs has morphed into a war on Americans and has given us dynamic entry tactics, forfeiture laws and many other evils. It's time to tone it down.
Legalizing marijuana at the federal level is a constitutional issue not a liberal one.
Dope for political dopes.
Looking at this rationally, applying a “schedule” class to drugs does need to be a state prerogative, but interstate commerce in “drugs generally accepted as schedule class” needs to be federally controlled.
As far as marijuana use goes, if prescribed by a physician, fine. Children should be realistically warned that pot makes them dull and uninteresting and wastes their time they need to live the lives they want to live. Entirely true.
The states and federal government need to act, and soon, because there is an estimated 12 million recreational opiate and synthetic opiate users in the country. They are now faced with the option that the cheap substitute of their drug of choice is heroin. It is an epidemic on the way, and it must be dealt with now, not later.
The states also need to get a handle on alcohol, hopefully by having strict laws against alcohol for minors under 21. If children can hold off on that, the odds of their becoming or remaining an alcoholic plummet.
Tobacco regulation needs to be left entirely to the states.
The vast majority of pharmaceuticals should no longer be by prescription only. They may be limited by the state or to delegated pharmacists, who may reject foolish requests for them. Caveat emptor.
By the same token, if you want to make pot illegal, then you had damned well better be advocating to make alchohol illegal, as well, or you are either a rank hypocrite or an extremely naive one. Indeed, alcohol is by FAR more responsible for triggering rage and violence in its users, than is pot.
I'm for States Rights on the issue, and even more, I'm for CONSERVATIVES to recognize that pot or alcohol is no more responsible for the damage they wreak, than a gun is for a shooting.
Want to outlaw pot because of what it "does" to people? Then to be honest and consistent, you should want to outlaw alcohol and guns on the same premise.
I should never get involved in any drug discussion because I never saw the sense in using any mind altering substance so I cannot logically debate anyone on the matter.. I am aware that I am an anomaly and just about everyone disagrees with me on that trait. So I say live and let live and I will keep my quirks to myself.
Party on, Garth.
They will tell you it should be up to the State to decide.
Now. Doesn’t that solve everything?
That's how it is right now - there are no federal laws against child rape (or for that matter, adult rape). Do you know of any states where repeal of anti-child-rape laws is making headway?
The Libertarian Party does - they are sick. But they don't speak for all libertarians any more than the Republican Party speaks for all who favor a republican form of government.
Sure...tell that to a person who has the protection of a law that a certain drug is legal.
As socalgop explained to you, legality of a substance, e.g. alcohol, gives no "protection" for DUI.
Federalizing morality hasn't helped - it's the feds who made abortion legal in all 50 states. And in the wildly unlikely event that any state ever legalized child rape, I'd bet my bottom dollar that a federal Constitutional amendment against it would be passed so fast our heads would swim. Your Chicken Little fantasies are nothing more than a diversion from real issues.
About damn time
Speak for yourself - I don't need the rule of law to prevent me from having gay sex ... or, to get back to the actual topic, from smoking marijuana.
States' rights and the Tenth Amendment are for dopes?
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