Posted on 04/01/2015 6:44:29 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
The Maricopa County attorney is coming under fire for calling a veteran an "enemy" during a debate-- and he's not backing down from his words.
This all unfolded at a debate over legalizing marijuana last week hosted by the Tempe Republican Women.
Bill Montgomery told a veteran he had no respect for him after the vet asked for a meeting to discuss how medical marijuana has improved his life.
"With all due respect sir, your name calling, 'potheads' offends me,” said Don Ream during a Q & A portion of the debate.
Ream is a Vietnam veteran. He's been a medical marijuana patient for several years, and he told Montgomery he'd like to "educate him" on recreational use.
Montgomery argued against legalizing the drug in Arizona. It’s an issue that could come up on the November ballot in 2016.
When Ream admitted to smoking recreationally, Montgomery responded:
"I have no respect for you, for someone that tried to claim you served this country and took an oath to uphold the constitution and defend against all enemies foreign and domestic because you're an enemy,” he said.
The crowd booed back to him.
After the debate, Montgomery released this statement:
"Is [ream] an enemy like ISIS or Al Qaeda? Of course not. But if he or any other vet is going to use their status as a veteran to encourage people to break the law, then that does make them an enemy of our constitution and our laws and that is a sad commentary on where we are at."
Montgomery is a veteran himself. He's a West Point graduate who served in the Gulf War.
ABC15 wasn’t able to get a hold of Don Reams for a comment.
Better yet to be a non atheist before getting in the foxhole :-)
I appreciate the concern, but I think it’s misdirected.
The Fedzilla really needs to be reined in, tightly.
A responsible way to handle medications that are likely to be hazardous if misused is to put their use in the care of doctors. The devil is in the details and this is where states can vary.
Sort of in general, bro
This is not about this thread, is it?
Marijuana is not food. It is no sort of necessity at all.
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"Is [Ream] an enemy like ISIS or Al Qaeda? Of course not. But if he or any other vet is going to use their status as a veteran to encourage people to break the law, then that does make them an enemy of our constitution and our laws and that is a sad commentary on where we are at," he wrote in an e-mail.
Is it 'food' when it is in edible form?
It is no sort of necessity at all.
Neither are most of the things you eat, easily substituted with a flavorless soy paste with select added nutrients.
If you grant the government the power to regulate anything you consume, the precedent is established for them to regulate everything.
With Obamacare, what you eat has become part of the 'public good'.
It can also be argued that spices have no food value, with the exception of just enough sodium to keep your electrolytes balanced. Therefore, the government can regulate what (if any) spices you are allowed to use, just for one example.
Now before you say that will never happen, I never thought they'd regulate how much water my toilet flushes, what kind of light bulbs I can get, or whether I'd have to drive with a strap across my lap, but damn, they did it anyway.
Yes there is, but some here deny both.
I am not going to participate in this silly attempt to compare marijuana to food.
And some here cannot abide a constitutionalist.
Rights belong to those that enforce them. How about Lois Lerner who clearly broke the law, then look at Menendez or Petraeus and you begin to see how that Constitution works when you have a king.
I am and always have been a strict Constitutionalist but the fact is, the president, Supreme Court and Congress are not and even worse neither are the people especially now that we have no borders.
Always nice when someone who claims to be for the Constitution lets the mask slip and the ugly fascist monster is revealed.
That rings pretty hollow when you work at finding excuses to abandon constitutional arguments.
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>> What is put into marijuana to make it “medical”? <<
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Availability.
Understanding.
Need.
Scientific curiosity.
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I don't abandon them, I just find them pointless if there is no one to enforce the Constitution, and there isn't.
A distinction without a difference.
Why don't you take your copy of the Constitution to DC and make a few Citizen arrests, after you accomplish that, then I will be open to discuss the merits of Constitutional arguments. Quoting the Constitution on these forums with no enforcement power has exactly the same effect as shouting at the TV set.
So does talking to you.
I am glad you understand your limitations.
What are the Constitutional means of dealing with a Lawless President?
Which of those Remedies have been used?
Who has used them?
What has been the effect?
Exactly the same as talking to me I would guess, which makes my point.
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