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Posted on 01/08/2002 11:15:02 AM PST by Texaggie79
A 72-year-old woman is one of three members of a Green Cove Springs family now in jail, accused of selling marijuana.
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Police said that undercover officers bought marijuana at the home on four separate occasions prior to issuing a search warrant. When officers entered the home, the elder Layfield was found sitting in a living room with several bags of marijuana.
"It's unusual to find someone her age selling pot, but she's not the first and probably won't be the last," said Lt. Larry Thompson, who heads up the Clay County Drug Task Force, which co-ordinates the efforts of the sheriff's office, the Green Cove Springs and Orange Park police departments.
All three suspects were charged with possession, sale and delivery of marijuana over 20 grams, a felony with penalties of up to five years in jail upon conviction.
Elnora Layfield has two prior drug-related charges.
"Maybe a little jail time will send a stronger message to her -- because probation isn't working," Thompson said.
They claim to want smaller government, and then they start creating bureaus to keep an eye on people's private lives.
They mean well. They sincerely believe that they are protecting the integrity of the Republic from cultural decay. I assume they also put their women in burqas to prevent the equally pernicious sin of lust.
I think this is a consequence of the way the drug war is structured. The whole paradigm is wrong. They are trying to combat drug abuse (a noble enough goal) by playing creative semantics with the commerce clause. The end result is that it ends up being not about the drugs, but about the money. And while all drugs are not the same, all money is.
Would you automatically brand your neighbor a constitution hating statist?(Dane)
(scottiewottie):You are right, we have a quandry here. How can a junkie not bothering anyone be a public nuisance?
I didn't ask you that. I asked you basically who you hold in more contempt, the junkie or the neighbor who called the cops. Was the neighbor correct for calling the police because of the junkie's actions?
Is he a nuisance because of his use of the street? If shooting up in the street is not a crime, just which nuisance law did he break?
Again I ask you who do you have more sympathy for, the junkie or the neighbor who is looking after his/her property values?
No, I would not call the neighbor a constitution hating statist. Why would I care if he was? I my Libertarian world I would have laws to hold his political actions(initiatory force) in check.
So would you castigate your neighbor for calling the police about the junkie shooting up in the middle of the street. A yes or no will be suffice.
To the contrary, if I knew that the police would help this man far better than myself(because as a libertarian I would hope the police could to that), I would beat the neighbor to the phone and call the cops myself!
So you don't trust the cops? How would you personally help this man? Would you personally pay for his treatment? Or would you tell your neighbor tough luck, let him die in the gutter?
More quandry. Why as a Libertarian, would I do that?
You will have to answer your own question. it's up to you if you like having junkies on the street in front of your house.
Bonus question: Would it make a difference if the man was in your front yard doing the same thing?
If he was shooting up in my front yard, I would tell him to get off my property, and if he decided to say, "Okay I will go out into the street, that ain't your property." I would call the cops although I may have a Libertarian/ACLU neighbor such as you, who would defend the junkie to shoot up on the street.
That's what happens when you don't keep up with these things. If you keep reading, Codie will try once again to disarm everyone in a few minutes, watch out for that, lol.
He may have seen the plans for the 20 megaton Dope Cannon I was contracted to draw under a secret DOD/CIA license. Of course, if he did, I will have to 'liquidate him', but it was fun while it lasted.
Codie: That was a joke, ok?
JMO.
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