Posted on 05/27/2008 8:30:14 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Sounds like the Supreme Beings on the Supreme Court have had too many beers and donuts, eh?
Liberalism … a monster that is eating us alive.
Canadian laws are a bit different. It is the Feds
that write most of the crimminal laws not individual
Provinces, except for Quebec.
BC has overstepped big time. Drug dens disguised as
“safe injection sites” !? Please.
Cogley: I’d be delighted to, sir, now that I’ve got something human to talk about. Rights, sir, human rights—the Bible, the Code of Hammurabi and of Justinian, Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States, Constitutional Principle of Fundamental Justice, Fundamental Declarations of the Martian colonies, the Statutes of Alpha 3—gentlemen, these documents all speak of rights.
Sounds more like people are getting wise to the war on some drugs... and deciding enough is enough. Can’t say I’m at all in favor of government-provided health. But striking down their drug war laws is most surely a good thing.
So.......being a criminal is an illness and thus arresting them violates their civil rights. Ooooookayyyyyy.
BCSC said heroin dens are a denial of health care !?
That`s some f****d up reasoning there and THE
quintessential definition of Judicial Activism.
That’s why the city is called Vansterdam.
Ha. But gay marriage was envisioned in their constitution. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I wish just one time I could take one of these so-called “judges” out with me to interview a 23 year old, “single mom,” meth addict with four kids, the oldest being five, running around the house unsupervised. It took me 45 minutes to get one of the kids to open the door. Another 20 for her to come out of the bedroom. I don’t know if she still has those kids because that wasn’t my job and I couldn’t do anything about it. What I saw wasn’t a pretty sight.
I was in Vancouver a year or two ago.
I was approached by smack dealers three times, asking me if I wanted to buy “a bag”- if you met me you would not think junkie.
The nice park in the bay was full of people in sleeping bags as it grew dark.
There were “head shops” here and there.
Oddly enough, when they put in shooting galleries, they seemed to be surprised that there were lots more heroin and addicts around town! Who could have guessed that!
Now, the dope laws there are “unconstitutional”? This will be interesting to see how it plays out. Our northern border may need attention as much as our southern one.
No, being a drug user is an illness and arresting them is (in THIS country) a violation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, neither of which grant government the necessary authority to ban anything whatsoever, but especially does not grant authority to keep folks from ingesting the recreational substance of choice, be it beer, pot, tobacco or heroin. On the OTHER hand, LOCAL governments do have the legitimate authority to regulate PUBLIC behaviors, including behavior while intoxicated by ANY substance. And to prohibit any activity in public places while intoxicated which would prove dangerous to others such as driving under the influence. That is ALL such authority government legitimately has or needs. None of the other parts of the war on some drugs can pass strict constitutional muster. Never have, never will... despite the connivance of the legislature, the executive and activist judges who ALSO suck at the public teat.
PING
I have a standing offer of $1,000.00 to any individual who can find a single word in the US Constitution authorizing the Federal Government to forbid any citizen from possessing any 'drug' whatsoever.
My money is safe unless and until a Constitutional Amendment is properly ratified and enabling legislation is passed into law.
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For at least 50 years, the Vancouver Police have claimed(more or less truthfully) that there are about 12,000 junkies in Vancouver.
A couple of hundred die each year, a few hundred leave that life, and a thousand fresh victims join it.
It’s sad, but nothing has ever changed it, for the worse or better.
Legalize drugs. Period.
In my opinion, even a Constitutional amendment would not be legitimate, as our RIGHTS are not granted by the Constitution, only PROTECTED by it... and attempts to infringe, whether by legislative fiat or Constitutional amendment are equally repugnant to a free society. It would be not unlike trying to repeal the Second Amendment or the First, even. Since government is not the SOURCE of our rights, government may not legitimately abrogate them. The SOLE exception being that certain rights may be held in abeyance during such time as one is serving a prison sentence as the result of due process court proceedings, but such rights must be fully reinstated when the sentence is completed. (If the sentence is not completed or if the miscreant is considered yet a danger, then sentence him properly and KEEP him in prison until he’s COMPLETED doing his time.)
(If the sentence is not completed or if the miscreant is considered yet a danger, then sentence him properly and KEEP him in prison until he’s COMPLETED doing his time.)
BINGO! We have a winner!
such as technology (FAA/FCC)and the breakdown of morals,
so of course the topic of heroin isn`t found in the
Constitution although laws date back to the 1800`s.
If they did have a crystal ball the Constitution and
Bill of Rights would be thousands of pages thick.
Jefferson and Adams could only allude to what could
happen, “ Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we
remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds
of the people, that these liberties are the gift of God?...
We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would
break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale
goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a
moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other.”
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