Posted on 09/24/2001 12:49:15 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage
"prove that you can smoke crack as much as you want and that you pose absolutely no threat to your neighbors".
And the indecipherable reply?
"Wouldn't the ideologues claim that the neighbors consented to be endangered by drug addicts because otherwise they'd have moved some place else?"
256 posted by Cultural Jihad
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Folks, gibberish don't get much better than this. Enjoy.
Whoops! Forgot to flag tex, and draw attention to his 'sayings'.
Wow, so you see using crack as harmful to neighbors. Kewl, so we agree then. Glad you finally got it.
I suppose so. Should we ban that too?
I'm glad we have mental giants like you around.
-------------------------------- Did you really get through college without hearing of delirium tremens in alcoholics?
Strange education.
I would vote against it, but states have every constitutional right to do so.
Wow, so you see using crack as harmful to neighbors. Kewl, so we agree then. Glad you finally got it.
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I 'got', - from you, - another infantile attempt to equate smoking crack with wife beating. -- Thanks.
States don't have rights. People do.
Now, nothing the Constitution would stop them, but that doesn't settle the issue. There's nothing in the Constitution to stop states from banning pencils. Don't just say you'd vote aginst it, as if it were just a matter of your personal view. Such laws are unjust, everywhere and always, for everyone.
See the 14th amendment.
And yes states CAN make bad laws that are allowable under the constitution. However, laws that prevent the legal sale of substances that take away people's ability to reason, to choose to stop using the drugs, to see reality, to recognize their kids as their kids and not a secret agent that they decapitate (actual event), or any other necessary inhibition to function as a responsible human.
No. Only people can have rights. Governments have powers. And no, the Constitution doesn't give states powers. They already had them by the time the Constitution was adopted.
And yes states CAN make bad laws that are allowable under the constitution.
Are you illiterate? I never said otherwise. What I did say is that there are laws that violate justice, regardless of whether or not they happen to be unConstitutional. That isn't that hard to grasp.
However, laws that prevent the legal sale of substances that take away people's ability to reason, to choose to stop using the drugs, to see reality, to recognize their kids as their kids and not a secret agent that they decapitate (actual event), or any other necessary inhibition to function as a responsible human.
I don't think that parses as a coherent English sentence.
Look up rights in the dictionary.
Are you illiterate? I never said otherwise.
Are YOU illiterate? I never said you said otherwise.
I don't think that parses as a coherent English sentence.
Perhaps not for an editor of newsweek but I put several sentences into one because I am to tired to spell it all out. It makes sense.
Many people here at FR have the same position as I, and in fact, FR is where I first found it.
Your 'communitarian' opinions on the subject, however, really are bizarro fringe stuff.
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