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Posted on 06/13/2005 12:01:32 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Drug Warriors!
It's not about weed, it's about Wickard!
It's not about governtment power, you dopers just want to get high. /sarcasm
bump
...for class reading.
ok.......when the supreme court runs roughshod over the constitution, when the congress we elected to uphold and maintain the constitution are more concerned about their own political careers than holding the judges responsible, when the president sits on his hands and will do nothing about an out of control court, what can we as citizens do? this is a question for the lawyers. can someone tell me what can be done?
Thanks for nothing to all those a$$bat WoDdies. We f*cking told you this would happen.
Here's the problem I have with most of the anti-drug crowd. They make it personal. They dislike drugs, so they dislike all people who don't favor drug laws.
It's not about tweaking the nose of people who disagree with you, it's about running roughshod over the Constitution.
They're not the only ones who fall into this trap - plenty of otherwise reasonable conservatives get fooled into thinking this is an issue of stoners vs. normal people. "Heck, I don't use drugs, why should I mind if the federal government increases its power to police drug use?"
They'd rather live in a drug-free totalitarian state than a liberty-minded Republic in which pot was legal. Drugs apparently tear at the very fabric of civil society itself more than an unrestrained government could possibly do.
Hey, what goes around comes around. The Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was modeled after the Machine Gun Tax Stamp Act.
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It's all about CONTROL. Their control over us.
"The tree of liberty should be watered by the blood and tyrants and patriots every twenty years or so" - Thomas Jefferson
Yeah? Machine guns are still legal, mostly.
"of" not "and"
too much of a hurry
The National Firearms Act of the 30's required a Federal Tax Stamp for the transfer or sale of a machine gun. The Feds then refused to issue the stamp. They did the same with marijuana once the Supreme Court upheld the practice.
Some old ones are. New ones can't be made legal. And God forbid you should have a slam-fire on a semiautomatic while a BATFE agent is watching. Instant felony charges - because a part of a previously-legal gun wore out! I don't think I'd be so bold as to state that "machine guns are legal" - "some machine guns not entirely illegal" is closer to the truth.
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