Posted on 07/17/2011 8:41:28 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iranian authorities have hanged another 30 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on drug-related charges, says the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
The campaign cites “local knowledgeable sources” saying 12 prisoners were executed on Wednesday June 29 and another 18 were hanged on the following Sunday.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran say the executions once again were carried out in secret and en masse, with no prior notification of families and attorneys and no official announcement from the judiciary.
The report indicates that on June 29, the judiciary announced the execution of one convicted murderer but made no reference to the execution of 12 prisoners on drug charges.
On June 15 another 25 prisoners were reportedly executed en masse at Vakilabad Prison without any official announcement
The campaign maintains that hundreds of prisoners have been executed in secret at Vakilabad Prison over the past two years, but Mashhad’s prosecutor general has responded by saying the media has exaggerated the scale of executions at Vakilabad. Mahmoud Zoghi has said that Mashhad has a high rate of drug crime because of its proximity to the Afghanistan border. This, according to the prosecutor, is what drives up the execution rate in the Khorasan Razavi Province compared to other regions of Iran.
Reports of mass executions in Vakilabad Prison have caused grave concern for human rights groups, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made direct reference to them in March in his report on human rights violations in Iran.
Iran executes people for drugs and Afghanistan rewards them.
Problem is, the regime hierarchy does drugs and deals in it themselves to get money for their nefarious business deals, but THEY don’t get punished.
In the mean time, would it kill you to at least respect the original Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment?
I wouldn't put it past those tyrants.
You little slim ball, this old vet can shoot you eyes out and not break a sweat.
The original Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment are not about drug users' rights. They are about the proper balance between state and federal power. The New Deal Commerce Clause has allowed federal control over the environment, education, health care and a host of other concerns it has no business regulating.
You should not be supporting federal laws that based on this leftist view of the Constitution.
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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.
J. Thomas; US v Lopez
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZC1.html
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Our construction of the scope of congressional authority has the additional problem of coming close to turning the Tenth Amendment on its head. Our case law could be read to reserve to the United States all powers not expressly prohibited by the Constitution.
J. Thomas; US v Lopez
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Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything, and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
J. Thomas; Gonzales v Raich
http://mlvb.net/www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZD1.html
More bs
I'll leave it to the reader whether to believe you or Justice Thomas.
When minority opinions of the court becomes law let me know.
Death to drug pushers. I have zero problem with that..... hang ‘em high!
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