Libertarian Party: National Guard Should Protect Medical Marijuana Users from DEA Thugs

Libertarian Party ^ | September 23, 2002 | George Getz

[Commie Basher]

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Libertarians urge California Gov. Gray Davis to protect medical marijuana patients from federal agents

SACRAMENTO, CA -- Should California Governor Gray Davis call out the National Guard to defend medical marijuana patients from federal agents? That's the question Libertarians will be asking today as thousands of medical marijuana advocates descend on the state Capitol in Sacramento to send the federal government a message.

"The National Guard is charged with defending lives and property when disaster strikes – and the federal raids on medical marijuana clinics have been a complete disaster," said Libertarian Party Political Director Ron Crickenberger, who is attending the rally.

"These DEA bullies with badges have ransacked clinics, brutalized helpless, dying people, and trampled state law. Now the only question is whether Davis will live up to his responsibilities as the state's chief law enforcement officer ­ or continue to kowtow to the federal government."

Agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration have raided dozens of marijuana clinics over the past few months, despite the fact that the possession, use, and cultivation of medical marijuana was legalized statewide with the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996. But now Californians are fighting back. Santa Cruz and other localities are making "medipot" available during public rallies at City Hall as protesters chant, "DEA, go away!"

Monday's Medical Cannabis Freedom Day rally, which kicks off at noon on the south steps of the Capitol, was created as a way for medical marijuana supporters statewide to demand an end to federal interference.

But will calling out the National Guard be necessary? Libertarians hope not.

"No such confrontation would be needed if Davis and Attorney General Bill Lockyer had the backbone to speak out more forcefully against this unwarranted federal intrusion," Crickenberger said. "Davis has asked the federal government to stop the raids. And last week, Lockyer sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and DEA head Asa Hutchinson 'questioning the ethical basis' for the raids.

"But meekly asking the DEA to stop hasn't worked. Davis and Lockyer should publicly and unequivocally demand that the raids stop. They should remind Ashcroft and Hutchinson that their boss, President George Bush, pledged during the campaign to 'respect states' rights' on medical marijuana. And they should inform the federal government that any future harassment of medical marijuana patients will be treated as an assault under state law.

"If Davis lacks the courage to stand up to the federal bully when lives are at stake, he should have the decency to resign."

Other groups participating in the rally include the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP); the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML); Students for a Sensible Drug Policy; and the Drug Policy Alliance. Organizers are also demanding a federal pardon for Bryan Epis, a Libertarian Party member who faces 10 years in prison for cultivating medical marijuana.

[Dead Corpse]

Oh no. Not you again. Don't you have any new material we can utterly refute? This old stuff has been done so many times it's no longer worth it.

For the sake of berevity, lets all just assume you've cut-pasted your usual malarky that only proves that you belive the FedGov is the arbiter of all our Rights, and that those Rights can be taken from us with either a simple majority in Congress, or by any district court judge. In fact, some of your postings have even suggested that things like the Second Amendment are too dangerous for the ordinary rank and file to possess and should be rightly restricted by the FedGov.

Does that about sum things up?

[MrLeRoy]

"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease."

The federal government has no Constitutional authority to do so.

[SteamshipTime]

The fake Thomas Jefferson has other ideas.

So does George Bush.

Incidentally, you should read Hans Herman-Hoppe's essay "The Right to Exclude" for an anarcho-libertarian perspective on immigration.

[Reagan Man]

I gather the company of SteamShipTime, headsonpikes, Dead Corpse and your other malcontented pals, are more to your liking and in tune with your beliefs and values. So be it. Talk about lying down with fleas.

I'm ROTFLMFB off at you!

Hahahahahahaha

[Reagan Man]

>>>The fake Thomas Jefferson has other ideas.

Ain't it the truth, Roscoe.

[Roscoe]

In fact, some of your postings have even suggested that things like the Second Amendment are too dangerous for the ordinary rank and file to possess and should be rightly restricted by the FedGov.

Quote?

[weikel]

Yeah none of them were ever addicts unlike hypocrite Dane. He has zero credibility preaching about how evil druggies should go to Federal ass bang prison until he reports himself.

[Dead Corpse]

Once you grow up, you'll understand that life isn't as black and white as the libertarian philosophy makes it out to be. The problem is, I doubt you'll ever grow up.

Aah. Can't refute a damn thing so let's resort to the insults eh? So much for being an astute politcical maven as you claimed to be.

Your argument about "black and white" sounds an aweful lot like the liberals interpretation of the Constitution. When it comes to government power, having the things it can do laid out in Black and White prevents abuses of power and things like "pennumbras" and "emanations" being added to our legal system.

[Reagan Man]

>>>Hans-Hermann Hoppe

No thanks. I'll let you wallow in his form of libertarian philosophy. I'm sure you'll enjoy it too. LOL

[Roscoe]

They love misrepresenting the Founding Fathers. When you point out their dishonesty, they resort to whining, "But they own slaves!"

The above observation applies equally to leftists and Libertarians.

[Dead Corpse]

Go look for it your damn self. I'm done with your misdirections and obfuscations. You are little more than disruptor. Or in this case would you deign to dirty yourself by commenting on the actual topic of the thread?

[Roscoe]

Go look for it your damn self.

It's your false statement.

[MrLeRoy]

They love misrepresenting the Founding Fathers.

That's rich coming from the guy who quotes the Founders without understanding them e.g. Jefferson and "casual embarassments."

[Reagan Man]

>>>Can't refute a damn thing...

Why should I waste my time. I'll let you make the case for me. Btw, I made no personal insult either. Its obvious you haven't been around modern American politics that long. I've concluded this from your own remarks. The truth wouldn't hurt you so much, if you only took off the blinders. Eyes wide open works wonders in the real world.

[Reagan Man]

>>>They love misrepresenting the Founding Fathers.

All the time.

Liberals and libertarians, kissing cousins.

[Roscoe]

They'll post an unsupported absurdity, then demand that you prove that it isn't so. It's their SOP.

[SteamshipTime]

RM, I'm finally convinced you are truly incapable of deductive reasoning. It's as if I were plopped down in the middle of a group of Sanskrit scholars and began arguing with them without even a frame of reference for reasoned debate. When others point out that your posts aren't really anything but a jumble of declarative sentences, you lash out with straw men and circular "argument." You don't even know what you don't know.

[MrLeRoy]

They'll post an unsupported absurdity, then demand that you prove that it isn't so.

Quote?

[Roscoe]

Quote?

1. "In fact, some of your postings have even suggested that things like the Second Amendment are too dangerous for the ordinary rank and file to possess and should be rightly restricted by the FedGov."

2. "Go look for it your damn self."

[Dead Corpse]

Eyes wide open works wonders in the real world.

Yes, and following your leaders into more socialism dressed as "compassionate conservatism" is such an alert thing to do. Maybe you are just hoping to get Medicare revamped to help you pay for your Viagra.

The descrepancies between your self-described learned position and libertarian philosophy have been posted and pointed out. Since it is so screamingly obvious you have no reply to this, you feel you must now commence with the insults and evasions. Go back and re-read 107 and 111. Your assumptions and my proof of your delusions are there.

By the way, I voted for Reagan. He was the last "conservative Republican" worthy of the name. You are doing his name no service with your tripe.