[zeugma]

Congratulations JH2! It only took 6 posts to prove you right. There is a rather large percentage of this forum that will cheer the process on while attacking anyone who disagrees as a 'liberal', 'democrat', 'druggie', or 'soft on crime'. I think it is seriously time to fear for the future of the republic when even those who supposedly support a more 'strict' interpretation of the Constitution are willing to support any edict because "it's the law".

[John Beresford Tipton]

"There is a rather large percentage of this forum that will cheer the process on while attacking anyone who disagrees as a 'liberal', 'democrat', 'druggie', or 'soft on crime'."

Yes, and there is a rather large percentage of this forum that are complete idiots, and these two sets overlap to a great extent.

U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, later a Justice of the Supreme Court summed it up well:

"With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some sort on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who committed it, it is a question of picking the man, and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him."

[A. Pole]

There is a rather large percentage of this forum that will cheer the process on while attacking anyone who disagrees as a 'liberal', 'democrat', 'druggie', or 'soft on crime'. I think it is seriously time to fear for the future of the republic when even those who supposedly support a more 'strict' interpretation of the Constitution are willing to support any edict because "it's the law".

The republics die when their elites become corrupt, decadent and greedy and the lower classes become a mob.

Thus Spake [Nietzsche's] Zarathustra:
[...] Fretted conceit and suppressed envy--perhaps your fathers' conceit and envy: in you break they forth as flame and frenzy of vengeance.

What the father hath hid cometh out in the son; and oft have I found in the son the father's revealed secret.

Inspired ones they resemble: but it is not the heart that inspireth them-- but vengeance. And when they become subtle and cold, it is not spirit, but envy, that maketh them so.

Their jealousy leadeth them also into thinkers' paths; and this is the sign of their jealousy--they always go too far: so that their fatigue hath at last to go to sleep on the snow.

In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence; and being judge seemeth to them bliss.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound.

Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking.

And when they call themselves "the good and just," forget not, that for them to be Pharisees, nothing is lacking but--power![...]