[Gianni]

Wow, do you know these WOD threads, or what? I couldn't have summed it up better myself. Great entertainment, though.

It is possible that someday we can break the mold on these threads if people can stop arguing the merits of the laws and shift the debate to how government attained the authority to enact them in the first place.

[tpaine]

"shift the debate to how government attained the authority to enact them in the first place."

Ahem, --- see #52 on this thread, --- or --- dozens of threads I've posted to that effect over the last five years.
So-called 'conservatives' who support the war, are simply in denial on the lack of a constitutional basis for such prohibitions.

[philman_36]

It is possible that someday we can break the mold on these threads if people can stop arguing the merits of the laws and shift the debate to how government attained the authority to enact them in the first place.
I'm trying to do just that...
2:1.32 (2 hours, 1 minute, 32 seconds is all the authority that was needed)