John Ashcroft heralds the end of a major drug ring with 11 indictments

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | April 20, 2002 | Torsten Ove

[palo verde]

I don't know what moral means
Jesus Christ, our supreme teacher, taught ''love one another''
our Constitution protects individual liberty
laws are designed to protect citizens from outlaws who violate another citizen's person or property
to call a marijuana smoker an outlaw and morally unfit seems senseless to me
Love, Palo

[Cultural Jihad]

People sticking needles in their arms and killing themselves may be okay for moral-liberal social-Darwinists, but to conservatives such behaviors infringe on the inalienable right to life. Being a slave to a drug may be fine for the ideologues, but to conservatives it abgrogates the inalienable right to liberty. Pursuing unneeded suffering may be a human right according to libertarians, but to conservatives it thwarts the inalienable right of people to pursue happiness, being sad at having to watch people needlessly suffer and die.

Rights are not inalienable if people are allowed the abrogate them with impunity.

[tpaine]

"Legislating morality is what conservatives/liberals do. They're the mirror images of each other."

Welcome to a conservative forum! For your information, law does little else than legislate morality. MTV and the Marxist professors may have tried to teach you otherwise. - CJ -

- Wrong again! -- Both on the purpose of our forum, but on the purpose of law, constitutional law.
Read JR below, & weep for your idiocy, CJ:

Free Republic is a place for people to discuss our common goals regarding the restoration of our constitutionally limited republican form of government. If people have other agendas for FR, I really wish they would take them elsewhere.
Thanks, Jim

226 posted on 2/7/02 4:01 PM Pacific by Jim Robinson

[Cultural Jihad]

The topic is a heroin bust, which substance should be made illegal to recreational use by all 50 states, not marijuana which is not inherently immoral.

[VA Advogado]

Wonder when you're going to start thinking on your own.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ah, the same Jim Robinson who is against the legalization of all drugs?

[VA Advogado]

Special Agent Greg Drews of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration clenched his fist in satisfaction yesterday as he walked from a Downtown hotel where Attorney General John Ashcroft had just announced the largest heroin and cocaine bust in Western Pennsylvania history.

Outstanding. Gotta love our law enforcment.

[VA Advogado]

Welcome to a conservative forum! For your information, law does little else than legislate morality. MTV and the Marxist professors may have tried to teach you otherwise.

Hogwartz aint the sharpest knife, you know?

[southern rock]

Pursuing unneeded suffering may be a human right according to libertarians, but to conservatives it thwarts the inalienable right of people to pursue happiness, being sad at having to watch people needlessly suffer and die.

Still sticking with the old constitutional "right" not to be sad argument, are ya, CJ? Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough with that one?

[VA Advogado]

I thought you said you used complete sentences.

Tpain's a tad brighter than you. For you I use complete sentences and T Y P E R E A L S L O W.

[Cultural Jihad]

So heroin should be illegal because junkies bum you out?

Not junkies, just unneeded suffering and untimely death.

[elwoodp]

This whole drug war gambit is a joke until the feds, state cops, and locals get the guts to pull an jenin on our inner cities (and on select streets in small towns across the county). Open air drug markets thrive, while our enforcement officials willingly look the other way so as not to be labeled "racist" and lose votes.

[Austin Willard Wright]

And, no doubt, similar behavior was shown by arresting officers in 1930, 1950, 1970, and 1980. The endless and unwinneable war against against human personal vices continues. The best solution is return to the original U.S. policy of drug legalization.

[palo verde]

I was a pot smoker for 10 years
I never tried any other drugs
I'm guessing people take drugs cause they are physically or emotionally in pain
I don't want to add to their burdens
drugs may bring more problems to them
hopefully they'll find a way to solve their problems
I want to stop the war on all drugs
Love, Palo

[southern rock]

CJ has been telling me that he has the constitutional right to not be sad for quite some time now.

Check out post #920 on this oldie but goodie!

LOL!!