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To: chance33_98
...if they truly wanted to make change to the laws so they could do it they would have done it the american way - grass roots (no pun intended), lobbying, getting support from people, showing others the fallacy of the drug wars...

Disagreeing with a law and working to overturn it is one thing, breaking it because your too lazy to fight it is another.

...equally sad at those who are too lazy to use the american system to fight for change.

Actually the American system was designed to include the option of fighting any law you believe to be unjust by deliberately breaking it, having your day in court, and arguing for jury nullification of that law.

A jury is supposed to judge both the facts of the case and stand in judgment of the law itself. If the jury feels the law is unjust, they have the right to acquit even if the defendant clearly broke the law in question. That's one of the ways that our American system of a "trial by a jury of our peers" was meant to work.

254 posted on 10/02/2002 12:04:13 AM PDT by schmelvin
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To: schmelvin
Actually the American system was designed to include the option of fighting any law you believe to be unjust by deliberately breaking it, having your day in court, and arguing for jury nullification of that law.

Looks like they have been trying that for years ;)

256 posted on 10/02/2002 12:34:53 AM PDT by chance33_98
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