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To: chris_bdba

You are not a Constitutionalist at all. That is a conceit by the all_about_liberty_and_nothing_about_responsibility libertarians

The USA has done great and our Blessed Constitution has done great for us for centuries without the ridiculous pot smokers traipsing along in the last 20 years claiming that banning pot violates your personal liberty. You are arrogant the way you want to reinvent the way America is put together. Have a beer or two and forget your damn pot it only gives you all delusions and reduces your IQs


272 posted on 06/24/2011 9:20:15 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: dennisw
The USA has done great and our Blessed Constitution has done great for us for centuries without the ridiculous pot smokers traipsing along in the last 20 years claiming that banning pot violates your personal liberty. You are arrogant the way you want to reinvent the way America is put together. Have a beer or two and forget your damn pot it only gives you all delusions and reduces your IQs

How much beer do you have to drink to make what the federal government has done with the Commerce Clause via the EPA, the Department of Education, "hate crime" laws, the VAWA, the AWB, and various other bureaucracies and hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations look "great"?

273 posted on 06/24/2011 9:29:27 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: dennisw
The USA has done great and our Blessed Constitution has done great for us for centuries without the ridiculous pot smokers traipsing along in the last 20 years claiming that banning pot violates your personal liberty.

Over 70 years ago, we adopted an expansive view of the Commerce Clause which allowed fedgov to get its foot in the door to control education, health care, the environment and a host of other concerns.

As Clarence Thomas put it in US v Lopez:

I am aware of no cases prior to the New Deal that characterized the power flowing from the Commerce Clause as sweepingly as does our substantial effects test. My review of the case law indicates that the substantial effects test is but an innovation of the 20th century.

Your drug war depends on the New Deal Commerce Clause for its existence. So let me ask a question that prohibitionist almost always duck:

Do you think national marijuana prohibition is in keeping with the original understanding of the Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment... yes or no?

274 posted on 06/24/2011 9:43:54 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: dennisw

I hate to correct you but the laws we have now have only been in place since the 1970’s and before that the 1930’s.In the early years of our country it was used quite a bit by many people with no problems so no I am not arrogant or trying to reinvent anything though that same thing could be said about people such as yourself. Expleain exactly how your insistance on what goes on in my home isn’t arrogant? And yes I am a constitutionalist. Now please stop with your baseless claims I do not have delusions and my IQ is just fine thank-you.


275 posted on 06/24/2011 9:47:30 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: dennisw

I hate to correct you but the laws we have now have only been in place since the 1970’s and before that the 1930’s.In the early years of our country it was used quite a bit by many people with no problems so no I am not arrogant or trying to reinvent anything though that same thing could be said about people such as yourself. Explain exactly how your insistance on what goes on in my home isn’t arrogant? And yes I am a constitutionalist. Now please stop with your baseless claims I do not have delusions and my IQ is just fine thank-you.


276 posted on 06/24/2011 9:47:34 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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