Posted on 12/27/2006 8:36:37 AM PST by DogByte6RER
As did the repeal amendment.
Yes -- the will of the people prevailed for both events.
It is a good reminder that we can't judge a people's actions without having a good understanding of what was affecting them at the time.
Great post.
At least that generation, in that time, recognized that what they wanted to do took Constitutional amendments.
The current de facto prohibition of alcohol and other substances or activities didn't take near as much work.
I wonder if it would be illegal to name a beer after her.
"Carry Nation's Mad Hatchet Brew."
No. We the People ratified a perfectly legitimate Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Just because you didn't agree with it is another matter entirely.
Make it like the old days of beer (middle ages) when they put huge globs of rancid butter in it to cover up the taste...
Some people will drink anything.
Hooray! The first person besides myself who states the truth.
There was nothing illegitimate about Prohibition.
Legitimate, but misguided.
Morality laws are doomed to failure.
And no, I don't do drugs, visit whores, and fully observe the Sabbath. (I don't even have anything in my pockets on Saturday when I go outside.) That said, those are my choices, between me and my family and God, and sure don't want the government --- authorized by the people or not --- imposing their morality on me.
I never walked into it to begin with. You miss the point entirely...
I would rather dispense justice my own way, but you at the same time while complaining about a "nanny state," are exactly the type who would run to it for protection from someone like me when you screw up.
Prohibition is no different than any other legitimate Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (I will exclude the 16th because it was never properly ratified.)
The fact that it was initiated by an act of vandalism just like the Boston Tea Party is also lost on your myopic selfishness.
People are doomed to failure... in a variety of ways...
No sir, it is you who miss the point entirely.
I have no problem with your dispensing of justice and already told you that - I just warned you to watch out they were coming after you.
And running to anyone for protection from the likes of you is the last thing on earth I would ever do.....in fact I imagine you would do said running from me, long before I would even consider such an action.
So she was the FIRST drug warrior using no knock entry and destruction of property raids? ;)
"Carry Nation's Mad Hatchet Brew."
Make it like the old days of beer (middle ages) when they put huge globs of rancid butter in it to cover up the taste...
Some people will drink anything.
Yeah ... like the Korjaks
Soma still found among the Palaeo-Siberians called Korjaks, and also in a small Mongol enclave of Afghanistan. The first was a simple drinking of the juice pressed from the mushrooms between boards and mixed with milk or curds. The hallucinogenic indoles it contained entered the stomach; but a great many more entered the kidneys and were later discharged with the urine. Clean-minded Classical scholars have until now shut their eyes to the possibility that the Vedic hymnwriter may have meant exactly what he said with 'the great gods piss out together the lovely Soma'. Yet it has been known for at least two centuries that the Korjaks do so after drinking the mushroom juice, and that their friends strain the urine through wool and, after drinking it, enjoy the same ecstasies.
"Carry Nation's Mad Hatchet Brew."
Ingredients : Kidney Filtered Beer and Soma
Who is "they" ???
"Ingredients : Kidney Filtered Beer and Soma"
I was thinking more along the lines of water, malted grain, hops, and yeast, but I grew up in a kosher household.
The nanny-statists you love to embrace. Are you that dense you couldn't figure that simple fact out?
Thanks for sharing...
Here in the USA, a similiar brew of fresh cow dung that has hallucinogenic mushrooms sprouting from it in the early cold mornings after a rain could be made quite readily...
No. We the People ratified a perfectly legitimate Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Just because you didn't agree with it is another matter entirely.
Are you that dense you...
Now, you are just being a jerk...
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