Posted on 12/30/2001 1:25:13 AM PST by NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
I am a Restorationist. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/596119/posts
How Don? On what charges?
The same sort of charges that would be applied against, for example, a pornographer who took sex pictures of a 9 year old. The reason we have, for example, statutory rape when there is consenting sex between two people, one of which is underage, is that, as I have frequently said, children are not citizens, so the level of care in determining harm to children can and should be severely different than for competent adults. And libertarian theory has nothing significant to say about this. Hence, your cow and you committed statutory battery with those kids on the playground. If the kids consented, than it was statutory fraud, just as you get hit up with if you make a hurtful contract with a supposedly consenting 6 year old to have sex on commercial tape.
Roscoe. I don't care if every person in the US but one has decided that prohibiting a thing is ok, it's not allowed. At least to the federal government. If you want the federal government to have that power, then enact an amendment giving it that power, and get it ratified.. They used to understand that, thus the 18th amendment giving congress the power to prohibit alcohol. Remember how well that worked? The same thing is happening again, but without the legitimacy of a constitutional amendment.
There is no such power in the Constitution to prohibit a thing. Period, end of discussion. Even if 99.999999999999% of the population agreed with you, they still would not have the power unless an amendment was passed and ratified under the procedures specifically set out in the Constitution.
It is folks like you, along with your hubris and paranoia, who are tearing this nation apart. You say...oh no, a nasty plant that will make someone happy....must eraticate it and jail all who may get the slightest enjoyment from it...can't have enjoyment, oh no.
God, listen to yourself, Roscoe. You must a bitter, unhappy man.
That extremely rare occurrence would become commonplace. Congratulations.
I have no real problem with drug prohibition, so long as it's not done illegally at the expense of our constitution.
Two centuries of building the greatest, most free and prosperous nation in history abandoned in favor of the unsubstatiated ravings of America hating zealots promoting Constitutional revisionism? You don't stand a chance.
Back yard, across the street in their own garden, in the next county where they own land. Next state maybe arguable, but even that is highly questionable. As I have stated, the original and only purpose of the commerce clause was to protect the products from one state from the taxing authority of another state through which that product passed during shipment. The debates, writings, and the Federalist Papers all show that clearly. Truly, congress has no authority to regulate interstate commerce any more than that.
But especially, most especially, if a guy grows something on his own property, as long as he never crosses a state line, it most definately does not fall under the commerce clause in any way shape or form, and the federal government has no power to do a dang thing to that person, or, a most disturbing practice lately, his property.
That extremely rare occurrence would become commonplace. Congratulations.
It is as far from rare as one could possible imagine. It earns the DEA and local law enforcement many billions of dollars each year that they don't have to beg congress for. It has become a part of our institutions that they depend on for funding. In my town, there is twice yearly auction in the Coluseum where ceased cars and boats are auctioned off. Are you really unaware of this?
Why pay $84 for rants you can get online for free?
don, I hate to say it.. But you are a liar and that is a lie..
"No force, no Fraud" rememeber?
Now, suppose you prove this lie to me.. WHILE, I go dig up Harry Brown Quotes..
THEN, if you can prove this you can take me aside and tell me how we can have laws against some types of immoral behavior, but definately not others in your little Utopian dream world..
That should make for interesting conversation.. Your "Rules" and how you will enforce them..
Cha-cha..
Oh, Okay TPaine.. You win again.
Oh? Thread is full of posts claiming that it is "unconstitutional" to prohibit anything.
You're imagining.
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