Posted on 09/08/2002 9:22:43 PM PDT by doug from upland
The judge allowed him to continue using marijuana.
Libertarians spend 80 percent of their time obsessing about dope.
Not even close. If it seems so to you, perhaps it's because you persist in characterizing us as dopers, and some of us then stand up and answer or rebut your characterization. The fact remains that some non-libertarian brought it up. Meanwhile, there are lots of other issues to occupy our time and effort.
I understand full well why some folks think of the LP as the "Let's Party!" Party. It's the easy way to dismiss a serious, principled, but unwelcome challenge to comfortable delusions.
Alas, it's true. Those who hold that opinion have made up their minds. But I said discuss, not debate, and I only suggested the topic as an alternative to "drugs", and because I see that it is under discussion elsewhere in this forum. Perhaps you would prefer something a bit less contentious, like abortion or taxation of income?
False.
But authorities in Placer County contend that Kubby and his wife, Michele, stepped over the line in January when they cultivated an in-house nursery of 265 marijuana plants, 110 of them fully grown and budded females, at their Squaw Valley home.
As to the judge allowing him access to pot, did you, by any chance, pay close attention to subsequent law enforcement activity?
Whatever. Obviously, I will not succeed in convincing you, so I guess you are welcome to your viewpoint.
Main Entry: lib·er·tar·i·an
Pronunciation: "li-b&r-'ter-E-&n
Function: noun
Date: 1789
1 : an advocate of the doctrine of free will
2 a : a person who upholds the principles of absolute and unrestricted liberty especially of thought and action b capitalized : a member of a political party advocating libertarian principles
It sounds like the Libertarian Communists hold the views that wage-slavery and money in general are forms of force and fraud and the employing class are social and economic parasites as bad as any governmental bureaucrat, and would call the L.P. "statists" for their apparently authoritarian views. If you have an issue with that you'll have to settle such internecine warfare between yourselves.
It was the same jury that deadlocked on the marijuana charges which found him guilty on the other drug violations.
As to the judge allowing him access to pot, did you, by any chance, pay close attention to subsequent law enforcement activity?
Kubby refused to pay even a dollar of his fine and left the area in violation of the terms of his probation. When he was ordered to report in for incarceration for the probation violation, he fled to Canada where he was later arrested for growing 160 pot plants. He now has a Canadian permit for 59 plants, but given his scofflaw attitude it's doubtful that he keeps an honest count.
Since internecine means "Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group; Mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides; Characterized by bloodshed or carnage", and The "Libertarian Communists" are essentially Communists with an ideology antithetical to ours, any "warfare" between us would hardly be "internecine".
But of course, you knew that, just as you probably know that a dictionary definition is unlikely to give justice to an entire philosophical ideology.
A spat?
They frame the debate in terms of the essential liberty of the human soul to find happiness without state interference, but it really comes down to the liberty to get high witout suffering risk of state sanctions. That's it.
There are a myriad of ways that the human soul can achieve, grow, find happiness and fulfillment. All of these way are rigorously defended by our laws and Constitution. But deny libertarians this one indulgence--to smoke pot until their brains are pickled green--and they weep and wail on account of their "chains." Pathetic.
The only libertarian more pathetic than the doper libertarian who defines his core existence in terms of THC concentration, is the libertarian who proudly asserts he is a dope-teetotaller but suffers unbearable agony because he cannot freely smoke a substance he has never smoked and has intention of ever smoking.
Abortion is murder, plain and simple. Any sane person who's witnessed a birth or even seen a human fetus at 3+ months knows that we are not dealing with a mass of tissue.
Free people do not murder the innocent, period.
Taxation is theft.
Reminds me of the Humphrey Bogart line to Peter Lorrie in Casablanca:
"You must hate me, don't you Rick?"
"Hate you? Well, I would, if I ever thought about you...."
Libertarians spend 100% of their time thinking they're actually relevant.
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