[tpaine]

"Tell me, Texaggie79, what reason would the founders give for not protecting the smoking of crack by private citizens?"


hmm... perhaps the same reasons they didn't protect witchcraft in their own state. They saw it as a direct threat, and therefore a violation of other's rights.
286 -aggie-

Witchcraft & smoking are 'direct theats' only in the stange minds of communiarian prohibitionists, which certainly does NOT describe our Founders intent in the writing of the 9th amendment.

[Libertarian Billy Graham]

Witchcraft & smoking are 'direct theats' only in the stange minds of communiarian prohibitionists

Its interesting how the darkest chapters of American history like witchcraft and other religious persecutions are pointed to as justification for similar mobocratic tyranny that goes on today.

Fortunately, these local tyrannies were quickly extinguished in early America by way of free republican institutions such as jury nullification and separation of governmental powers. Even slavery was being dismantled by these means. Before the knaves could bring us the civil war, they had to destroy these republican institutions first:

Modern knaves such as Roscoe can't even remember their anti-republican predecessors' hatred for these free institutions (such as that of Judge Peleg Sprague) and now 100% of their own hatefulness may be utilized in modern pogroms--and continue completely unchecked.

[Texaggie79]

Witchcraft & smoking are 'direct theats' only in the stange minds of communiarian prohibitionists

Now you call our founders "communitarian [sic] prohibitionists"?