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To: Ken H
I would second that.

Now, as I assume you are a Libertarian minded fellow, I have a question for you:

Imagine, if you would, that the WoD is just being conceived. All of the affronts to liberty and to state's rights have never occurred, no coercive measures, no raping of the Commerce Clause...

If we were under the afore-mentioned framework (as declared in my last post), with all states and the federal government passing supporting legislation enacting something similar to the WoD, but mindful of the tenets laid out in the framework as discussed, would you still stand as firmly against the WoD?

It has been bandied about on this thread that you dope smokin' Libertarian hippies only care about getting your pot legalized. It is my contention that it is the ill-conceived federal construct that gives you fits (and rightly so). Which one is it?

156 posted on 03/01/2009 5:21:17 AM PST by roamer_1 (Proud 1%er... Reagan Conservatism is the only way forward.)
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To: roamer_1
... It has been bandied about on this thread that you dope smokin' Libertarian hippies only care about getting your pot legalized. ...

Dude. Where do you get the idea that anyone that "smokes pot" is a Libertarian or a "hippy"? Is it your contention that smoking "pot" should be illegal?

I guess you're right. We can't have competition, can we?

Why can't we all just get along?


157 posted on 03/01/2009 5:37:12 AM PST by WVKayaker (When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra)
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To: roamer_1
Now, as I assume you are a Libertarian minded fellow, I have a question for you:

Imagine, if you would, that the WoD is just being conceived. All of the affronts to liberty and to state's rights have never occurred, no coercive measures, no raping of the Commerce Clause...

If we were under the afore-mentioned framework (as declared in my last post), with all states and the federal government passing supporting legislation enacting something similar to the WoD, but mindful of the tenets laid out in the framework as discussed, would you still stand as firmly against the WoD?

No. What you describe would be a vast improvement over what I consider to be a disastrous undertaking on many levels. I would probably still be against it, but it would not be a constitutional issue, and it would be far down on the list of priorities.

It has been bandied about on this thread that you dope smokin' Libertarian hippies only care about getting your pot legalized. It is my contention that it is the ill-conceived federal construct that gives you fits (and rightly so). Which one is it?

You have it right.

177 posted on 03/01/2009 11:09:03 AM PST by Ken H
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