Posted on 04/15/2006 4:09:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yup. Right on. Plus look at drug legalization realistically. We legalize drugs and the lawyers will start suing the manufacturers and distributors on the first day. It's like tobacco squared. Heroin will be so expensive from taxes and liability insurance, people will have to buy it off the black market. Which is illegal.
Clue Fairy, in for a visit.
If you think "we the people" decide anything anymore, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Talk about naive. Our government is nothing more than a benign tyrant. We have precious little effect on what goes on.
"and personally, I think it un-Constitutional to jail someone for a matter that is not presenting a threat to the rights of another citizen."
Nothing to "think" about that; it's a fact, under due process of law. [see the 14th]
Paulsen equivocates:
Define "presenting a threat".
Committing an actual criminal act.
Personally, I think recreational drug use is a threat to our society, to our way of life, and to the raising of our children.
Yes, you do 'think' a lot of odd things bobby. Like hillary, you want a war to 'save the children'. -- That WOD's is tearing our Constitutional society apart.
Golly gosh, what's driving the current illegal immigration controversy -- polititians finally discovered their collective conscience?
If you're not writing your congressman on this issue, you should be. If you have already, then your post is ludicrous.
Oh. Like speeding? Or DUI? Those criminal acts?
Well. That cleared that up...
"and personally, I think it un-Constitutional to jail someone for a matter that is not presenting a threat to the rights of another citizen."
Nothing to "think" about that; it's a fact, under due process of law. [see the 14th]
Paulsen equivocates:
Define "presenting a threat".
Committing an actual criminal act.
Oh. Like speeding? Or DUI? Those criminal acts?
There you go again bobbie, claiming that reasonable regulations about driving are comparable to a prohibitional 'war' on human liberty/rights.
Personally, I think recreational drug use is a threat to our society, to our way of life, and to the raising of our children.
Yes, you do 'think' a lot of odd things bobby. Like hillary, you want a war to 'save the children'. -- That WOD's is tearing our Constitutional society apart.
We have reasonable regulations on drugs. Of the tens of thousands of drugs, only a handful are prohibited.
Personally, I think recreational drug use is a threat to our society, to our way of life, and to the raising of our children.
AppyPappy, ditto king:
Yup. Right on. Plus look at drug legalization realistically. We legalize drugs and the lawyers will start suing the manufacturers and distributors on the first day. It's like tobacco squared. Heroin will be so expensive from taxes and liability insurance, people will have to buy it off the black market. Which is illegal.
Bizarre. -- If we repeal drug prohibitions, and restore constitutional law, there will be no black market, nor any basis for idiotic lawsuits.
Clue Fairy, in for a visit.
Clue in chicken little - crying that the sky would fall if we returned to the legal world circa 1900.
"-- We have reasonable regulations on drugs. Of the tens of thousands of drugs, only a handful are prohibited. --"
Another bold howler..
Get your head out of the sand paulsen; this 'prohibition on some drugs' is destroying our constitutional way of life.
Be that as it may, the regulations are reasonable. That, may I remind you, was the issue.
Constitutional law. You are a real hoot. And maybe all the lawyers will turn honest too. Jeepers, what a great idea!
When the politicians aren't selling the Constitution, they are wiping their ass with it. I'm not counting on a return to the Constitution anytime soon. But, tp, if you can make it happen, I'll support drug legalization. Until then, it is simply unrealistic.
"-- We have reasonable regulations on drugs. Of the tens of thousands of drugs, only a handful are prohibited. --"
Another bold howler..
Get your head out of the sand paulsen; this 'prohibition on some drugs' is destroying our constitutional way of life.
Be that as it may, the regulations are reasonable. [Neener neener] That, may I remind you, was the issue.
Unconstitutional prohibitions, may I remind you, have always been the issue.
Clue Fairy, in for a visit.
Clue in chicken little - crying that the sky would fall if we returned to the legal world circa 1900.
Constitutional law. You are a real hoot.
Well, at least I'm not clucking around like some chicken little.
And maybe all the lawyers will turn honest too. Jeepers, what a great idea! When the politicians aren't selling the Constitution, they are wiping their ass with it.
Yet you applaud them using it that way for the drug war. -- "Jeepers".
I'm not counting on a return to the Constitution anytime soon. But, tp, if you can make it happen, I'll support drug legalization. Until then, it is simply unrealistic.
Whatever, appyhead.
Appyhead. Whoowee, that was a real knee-slapper. You should be working the Poconos with Shecky and the gang.
"Think of it as evolution in action."
-- L. Niven, J. Pournelle
It worked.
So you're conceding the regulations ARE reasonable, just unconstitutional.
"-- We have reasonable regulations on drugs. Of the tens of thousands of drugs, only a handful are prohibited. --"
Another bold howler..
Get your head out of the sand paulsen; this 'prohibition on some drugs' is destroying our constitutional way of life.
Be that as it may, the regulations are reasonable. [Neener neener] That, may I remind you, was the issue.
Unconstitutional prohibitions, may I remind you, have always been the issue.
So you're conceding the regulations ARE reasonable, just unconstitutional.
Bobbie, you make very odd comments ALL the time. What above gives you the idea I'm "conceding" anything? -- And how could an unconstitutional regulation be 'reasonable'? -- Get a grip on your rhetoric.
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