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To: dheretic
I'm a Liberal because I adhere to the majority of Locke's doctrines.

False

"Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth. And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world." -- John Locke

In every single case the government has the burden to prove the source of its evidence is legitimate and that items deemed contraband are in fact within its jurisidiction.

False.

The Congress makes the following findings and declarations:

(1) Many of the drugs included within this title have a useful and legitimate medical purpose and are necessary to maintain the health and general welfare of the American people.

(2) The illegal importation, manufacture, distribution, and possession and improper use of controlled substances have a substantial and detrimental effect on the health and general welfare of the American people.

(3) A major portion of the traffic in controlled substances flows through interstate and foreign commerce. Incidents of the traffic which are not an integral part of the interstate or foreign flow, such as manufacture, local distribution, and possession, nonetheless have a substantial and direct effect upon interstate commerce because--

(A) after manufacture, many controlled substances are transported in interstate commerce,
(B) controlled substances distributed locally usually have been transported in interstate commerce immediately before their distribution, and
(C) controlled substances possessed commonly flow through interstate commerce immediately prior to such possession.

(4) Local distribution and possession of controlled substances contribute to swelling the interstate traffic in such substances.

(5) Controlled substances manufactured and distributed intrastate cannot be differentiated from controlled substances manufactured and distributed interstate. Thus, it is not feasible to distinguish, in terms of controls, between controlled substances manufactured and distributed interstate and controlled substances manufactured and distributed intrastate.

(6) Federal control of the intrastate incidents of the traffic in controlled substances is essential to the effective control of the interstate incidents of such traffic.

Ignorance and dishonesty are the bread and butter of Liberalism and Libertarianism.

473 posted on 08/08/2002 8:58:31 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
"Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth. And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world." -- John Locke

You are taking Locke out of context. He is not saying that people give up their freedoms to government for it to dispense as it sees fit, but in accordance with liberal philosophical views they are giving up their natural rights for civil rights (the civilized equivalents). Like refining a diamond so that it has more value. The Lockean liberal society is not one where the government has unlimited power, far from it. It is a society where freedom is only limited so as to promote freedom for the whole. That is why no rights are absolute; any right taken to its utter extreme violates the rights of all. Therefore the right to security cannot come at the expense of the right to privacy in one's home or ownership of one's belongings. There is no classical liberal justification for the WOD, only a pseudo-religious one promulgated out of fear by "conservatives."

474 posted on 08/08/2002 3:26:23 PM PDT by dheretic
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