Approved by Mao Ze Dunn!
Posted on 12/05/2011 1:08:50 PM PST by Niuhuru
A young woman sits cross-legged on the ground laughing playfully as she is fed a lychee. Another plays cards in pair of baggy pink pyjamas.
The moving images could show any group of young women as they go about their daily lives in prison.
But just hours - and in some cases minutes - after the pictures were taken, each of the four women were led into a concrete yard and executed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I have to admit that I don’t have any more sympathy for drug smugglers today, than I did when this was posted yesterday.
Couldn’t care less if they wore pants rather than skirts: a criminal is a criminal.
Ah, so you believe the Commerce Clause delegates such authority to fedgov. Enjoy Obamacare.
(especially considering the alternative)
Like following the original Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment? How awful.
The Butcher's of Beijing are getting their cut of the illegal drug trade, but let's kill destitute peasant women for doing whatever it takes to put food on their families' tables. Punish the monkey, let the organ grinder go.Not to mention that their organs will go for a tidy sum on the open market.
Approved by Mao Ze Dunn!
“Ah, so you believe the Commerce Clause delegates such authority to fedgov. Enjoy Obamacare. “
Yea, I think the Constitution gives the federal government control over what crosses our borders.
I know, it’s a radical concept for some people.
Of course. Congress has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. However,the drug war also includes Congress's use of the Commerce Clause to set intrastate drug policies, rather than the states under the Tenth Amendment.
Were you aware that two appeals court justices, both friends of Scalia, cited his opinion in the Raich case to uphold Obamacare?
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Both Silberman and Sutton cited Scalia's opinion in 2005 upholding strict federal regulation of marijuana in the case of Angel Raich, a Californian who used home-grown marijuana to relieve her pain. "If Congress could regulate Angel Raich when she grew marijuana on her property for self-consumption," Sutton wrote, "it is difficult to say Congress may not regulate the 50 million Americans who self-finance their medical care."
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?a=rp&m=b&postId=1165037
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Do you think the Constitution gives the federal government control over intrastate drug policies?
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Thomas: Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything, and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
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Sutton: "If Congress could regulate Angel Raich when she grew marijuana on her property for self-consumption," Sutton wrote, "it is difficult to say Congress may not regulate the 50 million Americans who self-finance their medical care."
Joseph Story predicicted it 200 years ago,
Couldn’t care less if they wore pants rather than skirts: a criminal is a criminal.
Do you think the US justice system is perfect? How about the Chinese justice system?
That's the problem with these executions.
ConservaTexan..... YOU have a lot to learn about the brutal Chinese Communist regime and their kangaroo court system.
ConservaTexan..... YOU have a lot to learn about the brutal Chinese Communist regime and their kangaroo court system.
Freedom of speech and freedom of religion is treated as a banned narcotic in Communist China.
Thomas: Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything, and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
Sutton: "If Congress could regulate Angel Raich when she grew marijuana on her property for self-consumption," Sutton wrote, "it is difficult to say Congress may not regulate the 50 million Americans who self-finance their medical care."
Nice find, Ken!
There you have it, FReepers: either both Obamacare and the federal War On Drugs are constitutional, or neither are. Which side are you on?
The end is justifying the means. Nobody’s going to own up to the collateral damage and unintended consequences.
Do you think they would have written anything, let alone anything so blatently tear jerking, had the accused convicted been male?
And, system imperfections (NO system on earth is perfect) aside, I don't give a damn in Hell if every druggie dropped dead; at least they would provide work for grave diggers, an honest occupation.
average (not a mistake)...YOU have a lot to learn about the literary devices of what may or may not be your native language.
Arguing with you is not worth my time, so you are right, I am an idiot. Does that make you feel better? Now please go away, NOOB.
You are arguing semantic nuances while totally oblivious of the context of the article. You are not worth your own time let alone that of others.
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