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One Nation Under Drugs
Townhall.com ^ | January 13, 2014 | Scottie Hughes

Posted on 01/13/2014 11:39:29 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Finny

Yeah crap.

The conservative wants the federal government to do nothing more than is outlined in the Constitution, and leave everything else up to the states or local governments.


161 posted on 01/13/2014 7:46:01 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Finny

If you oppose drugs, gay marriage, abortion, and gays in the military, and polygamy, you sure hide it well, since you want to make them legal, and keep them legal.

Do you think the laws about marriage and military service, and immigration, and State department policy, and federal employment and benefits, are somehow not supposed to involve law?

Do you think conservatives merely want laws allowing someone to not agree with abortion, or gay marriage?


162 posted on 01/13/2014 7:50:24 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

The federal government has laws for itself, for instance involving marriage, abortion, employment, immigration, military service, and contrary to what you claim, conservatives do care about those laws and policies.


163 posted on 01/13/2014 7:54:08 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12
Sorry -- limited government that would do away with the liberal laws that now punish those of us who refuse to accommodate or support drug abusers, gay marriage, abortion, and gays in the military, and polygamy. RIGHT NOW, Ansel, if you were a landlord and didn't want to rent to a gay couple or an unmarried couple, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PUNISH YOU FOR BEING IMMORAL.

Remove that government, and watch how quickly gays go back in the closet. Remove government enabling of sloth and hedonism, and watch drug/alcohol abuse shrink. I am saying shrink the government, shrink the problem.

In principle and in practice, you are saying replace their government with "our" government, and you're calling that government "conservative."

NO SALE for this conservative.

164 posted on 01/13/2014 7:54:37 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny
Not at all, you promote, and then pretend you aren't.

To: Finny
Only authoritarians think government laws "forbidding" moral weaknesses and failings can cure anything. Ansel, WHY didn't the Constitution state that drunkenness, gambling, prostitution, abortion (yes, it was around then), and homosexuality were banned? Why does government need to do it now?

Wow, you and your pro-abortion arguments, you think the founders of this nation deliberately left it as some sort of constitutional right?

156 posted on 1/13/2014 7:34:37 PM by ansel12

165 posted on 01/13/2014 7:57:49 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12
conservatives do care about those laws and policies.

Very nice, but aside from military and immigration issues, conservatives should worry about them at the state level.

166 posted on 01/13/2014 8:01:04 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Please see my post 164. Do you think I'm "siding with liberals"???
167 posted on 01/13/2014 8:01:26 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ansel12

You see that as a pro-abortion argument? You need your glasses changed up!


168 posted on 01/13/2014 8:02:28 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

What a goofy post, if you don’t want homosexuality legal in the military, then you have to change the law.

If you want abortion illegal, then it has to be against the law.


169 posted on 01/13/2014 8:03:09 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Finny

When you find ways to oppose pro-lifers, as you have in post after post, yeah, I know why you are arguing with conservatives and calling us “authoritarian”.


170 posted on 01/13/2014 8:05:28 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12
And incidentally, WHY didn't the Constitution outright include laws forbidding homosexuality, abortion, gambling, murder for that matter -- and as a bonus question, by what vehicle did the evil Roe v Wade make its way to dominance?

LIMITED GOVERNMENT enables moral societies. "Compassionate" and "moral" government enables the America we see today!!!

171 posted on 01/13/2014 8:06:25 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ansel12

You never answer any of my questions! It’s like corresponding with a parakeet.


172 posted on 01/13/2014 8:07:18 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Conservative should care about law at all levels, this is just an example of the areas that the feds have to deal with law involving “social issues” gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality.

Libertarians play a game as they fight for the left, but their goals are the same, at the city level, county, state, federal, their social liberalism is in force at all levels.


173 posted on 01/13/2014 8:12:49 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Finny

Well, you have legal abortion, legal gay marriage at the federal level, the feds have to deal with those issues, you seem determined to force arguments to keep the current laws in place.


174 posted on 01/13/2014 8:15:24 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Ken H

Yeah, I need a better source.


175 posted on 01/13/2014 8:17:52 PM PST by ansel12
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To: maine yankee
I live in Seattle, yankee.

As far as I know marijuana became legal on January 1st, not six months ago.

That THC test sounds bogus, too.

5 nanograms are a unit of weight, 5 billionths of one gram.

Trying to locate 5 nanograms of THC in a blood drop would be a good trick, and trying to weigh it would be an even better trick.

176 posted on 01/14/2014 2:38:00 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: DJ Taylor
Any activity in which one only endangers oneself is not subject to government control in a free society.

I do not think smoking marijuana and flying helicopters is an exercise in freedom with responsibility. A person who engages in this activity is falling down on the responsibility end of the equation.

There are certain activities (e.g. alcohol, marijuana) in which a responsible person will not engage when they choose to be a pilot, police officer, fireman, bus driver, etc. A person who believes in freedom with responsibility will recognize that and act accordingly. But, as I have already stated, the fact that some people do not behave responsibly is not a justification to limit the freedoms of people who do.

177 posted on 01/14/2014 4:50:32 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: ansel12; Admin Moderator; All
When you find ways to oppose pro-lifers, as you have in post after post ...

CUT AND PASTE EXAMPLES of where I do that Ansel, or be an honorable, righteous conservative and delete your libelous posts.

CUT AND PASTE EXAMPLES OF MY WORDS "opposing pro lifers" and "promoting drugs" and "siding with liberals" and all the rest of your hysterical imaginations, or admit that what you write here about me is PURE LIBEL. DO ONE OR THE OTHER, if you have the integrity and honor. If you lack integrity and honor, go on libeling me.

Ansel and Admin Moderator, look at Ansel's posts 128, 131, 133, 138, 141, 145, 147, 153, 156, 162, 165, 169, 170, and 174. FOURTEEN POSTS Ansel declines to debate or discuss, but instead LIBELS me pure and simple, and if it had been once or twice, who cares? But this guy has done it in fourteen posts, enough repetition to hurt my reputation on FR. THAT IS WRONG.

If you were an honorable person with ethics, a true conservative, Ansel, you would ask the Admin Mod to delete those posts.

And by the way, YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED ONE SINGLE SIMPLE QUESTION I HAVE PUT FORTH TO YOU. Not one.

Ansel:

1. Please advise how my opposing laws that punish bakers for refusing to cook wedding cakes for homosexual "weddings," and how opposing laws that punish the military for (rightly!)discriminating against folks they know are homosexuals in their ranks, and how opposing laws that punish companies for refusing to extend spousal benefits to "gay" spouses, is siding with the left.

2. Do you think the Federal government should have law punishing two guys who hold a private ceremony in which they pretend to get married, and do you think Federal government should have law punishing a baker for baking a cake for that ceremony? Yes or no?

178 posted on 01/14/2014 8:37:34 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: WayneS

Amen!


179 posted on 01/14/2014 8:38:11 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ansel12
One more time:

Well, you have legal abortion, legal gay marriage at the federal level, the feds have to deal with those issues ...

Hello, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK, anybody home??

Ansel, none of those social issues became "issues" at all because the majority of states and free Americans rejected abortion and open homosexuality on their own, without needing laws to tell them to do that. It was ONLY when the Federal Government stepped in and said, "You'd better keep abortion LEGAL, you'd better honor 'gay marriage,' or else!" that things started to go sideways. HELLO??????????????? Anybody there?

Government is the path to amoral tyranny. LIMITED GOVERNMENT is the path to morality.

180 posted on 01/14/2014 8:44:01 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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