Posted on 12/26/2010 9:06:00 AM PST by cougar_mccxxi
Aren't you also worried about homos and the influence they may have over your children? Shouldn't homosexuality be outlawed?
If so, how would you enforce it?
Or, I would ask a similar question: If a drug dealer did NOT sell to children, would you have the law excuse them from arrest and prosecution?
Would you differentiate between pot and other drugs?
1) If we legalized drugs, there would be no drug pushers to give kids free samples, because drug pushers would be out of business.
2) I grew up during the hippie generation. All my friends were doing all kinds of drugs: speed, pot, LSD, etc. They offered samples to me all the time. I declined. So if some kid is dumb enough to get himself hooked on drugs, it's not a good enough reason to penalize everyone by creating the whole war-on-drugs system.
3) Legalize drugs, and let the government give them away for free. It'll be cheaper for the taxpayers and give back our freedoms, so we won't have to worry about cops mistakenly breaking down the wrong door in the middle of the night, etc.
4)But they won't legalize drugs, because too many people are making a lot of money off drugs.
OJ Simpson murder trial was such a case of jury nullification
We also have to get rid of “we are our brother’s keeper” mentality.. When the homeless, starving, cold, drug addicts ask for free medical care. We have to tell to screw off.
Good news. Maybe if juries stop providing the cops with convictions, then the cops won’t have as much of a reason to acts like Stasi. Next on the block - property forfeiture laws - get rid of ‘em.
Clue.less.
Then that's what you do. The Constitution is the highest laew in the land, to which all others are subject. If a subsidiary law is not in accord with the Constitution, then it has no legitimacy.
That might be how our current healthcare crisis got started.
I seem to remember that decades ago, hospitals were not required to treat people who could not pay.
For people who could not pay, there were charity hospitals.
If those charity hospitals were short on supplies or didn't have the latest equipment, that was tough.
But now hospitals must treat people who cannot pay.
And who pays the bill?
The rest of us.
Now medical costs are spiraling out of control, causing more and more people to drop health insurance and join the ranks of those who cannot pay, making the original problem worse.
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