If this were the case, the extremely liberal NY judiciary would have thrown them out on Constitutional grounds long ago.
The 4th Amendment is obviously not violated by the law - there is no exemption for law enforcement from probable cause under the law.
Neither is the 5th Amendment violated either. The law provides for open indictments and full due process for the accused - again their are no exemptions for law enforcement under this law.
Nor is the 8th Amendment. Prison sentences for crimes are neither cruel nor unusual - and "excessive" bail is and has always been in the eye of the beholder. The defendant always thinks bail is too high.
What tyranny is, is the failure to respect the inalienable rights of man.
That's a pretty weak and specious definition.
What tyranny actually is, by historical definition, is a system wherein the governed have no say - a system usually reserved to the arbitrary whim of a single unelected ruler.
When the Founders were framing the Constitution, their notion of tyranny was clearly modeled on the Greek institution of tyranny (arbitrary rule of one man with no redress for citizens) and by what they saw as the tyranny of Great Britain - namely that by being deprived of Parliamentary representation, the colonists were effectively ruled by the arbitrary whim of the King without any means of redress.
Even if we pretend that selling crack is an "inalienable right" of man, which it manifestly isn't, a law passed by (and subject to the repeal of) the people's elected representatives is the definitional opposite of tyranny.
Unless you can prove that the Rockefeller laws sanction warrantless searches without probable cause, sanction indictments without benefit of grand juries, sanction conviction without due process etc., then your citation of the Bill of Rights is laughable. In point of fact, anyone convicted under the Rockefeller laws was served with a warrant, was indicted by a grand jury, was provided full recourse to counsel and a fair trial, and received a merited prison sentence.
The fact that you and a minority of NY residents don't like a law passed by the majority of the people's elected representatives is just too bad for you and your friends.
If you don't like it, make your case to the electorate and vote in a State Assembly that will pass laws that you prefer.
In the meantime, the law is the law.
Therefore, the Rockerfeller laws are tyrannical.
You have actually given two variant definitions of "tyrannical" now. One is, apparently, the "violation of the inalienable rights of man." That is a novel definition heretofore unknown. Your second definition is "violation of the Bill of Rights." Not all violations of the Bill of Rights are tyrannical - they are all unconstitutional but not all are "tyrannical." So this is erroneous as well.
If we go by the definition of tyranny our Founding Fathers used, the Rockefeller laws are not tyrannous.
Nor are they a violation of the "rights of man" unless the freedom of selling crack has now magically taken its place alongside the freedom of worship and freedom of the press.
If you knew what tyranny is, then you would see as clearly as I do that the Rockerfeller laws are.
Ah, but I do know what tyranny is. What you don't seem to understand is that spewing hysterical rhetoric does not enable you to redefine words to your liking. You believe that smoking crack is an important, imperishable, divine right. Believe that as fervently as you desire.
But please don't pretend to have a monopoly on "seeing clearly."
Ah NOW I see clearly. You are a left-wing troll who thinks words can mean whatever you want them to mean. What the heck are you doing on FR? Wasting the time of people who love freedom?
You're absolutely correct - this isn't tyranny at all, just American-style socialism.
America can make socialism work!
Press on, lads!
Let the record show that "wideawake" believes that gun confiscation is perfectly Constitutional.
Like you (you left-wing troll -- you gotta love the well-reasoned and thoughtful response to your arguments), I tire of reading the lies of the posters who like to use inflammatory words and phrases like "tyranny", "violation of the inalienable rights of man", "plain contravention of the ... Constitution", and "enable the government to more fully control its citizens".
Makes me want to get into my black helicopter and hunt them down (and shoot their dog).
The freedom to exchange goods and services without government intervention in the absence of force or fraud is not new and has always had it's place alongside other fundamental rights.
It's sad - the dopertarians' brains are too clouded to see that DAs picking and choosing the laws they will enforce is yet another step toward tyranny.
Very good explanation. Shining the light of intelligenct understanding and historical reference on sloganeering.