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To: William Terrell

Do you know the difference between malum in se and malum prohibitum offenses?>>

Quite well. A lot of people think that pot selling is a malum prohibitum. My dead friends cry from the grave that it is a malum in se.


63 posted on 11/26/2005 6:00:16 AM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
Malum in se offense requires a injured party other than oneself. Government can not be mandated to protect us against ourselves, else it goes quickly into tyranny with such precedent.

Cannabis does not kill, only those who are attracted to its artificially high prices cause by illegality. Any person can grow cannabis anywhere by and for themselves.

I think you have bought wholesale inaccurate conditioning offered to you by those whose interests are not in favor of your liberty and economic good. I don't see many facts and much reasoning in your statement. Just reaction.

94 posted on 11/26/2005 6:14:42 AM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
My dead friends cry from the grave that it is a malum in se.

Suicide is legal, murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide, etc, is not. How did they die?

Killing another by drunk driving, which is itself contains elements of multiple crimes, doesn't mean alcohol should be illegal or is intrinsically malum in se.

152 posted on 11/26/2005 7:06:29 AM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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