Government regularly accuses property of a crime—that’s how it “justifies” accusing you of a crime, and then taking your property without having to actually convict you of anything. It’s a huge scam, and a big problem that doesn’t get enough attention, imo.
More info here (or just google “civil asset forfeiture”):
Exactly. I am especially incensed by this cynical window dressing related to citing Constitutional authority for all the new bills they plan to pass.
Ideally, they would have focused on the wide-ranging number of unConstitutional laws they were going to repeal!
But hey, I’m not a purist—how about they at least start by focusing on the core issue of Constitutionality—i.e., “We pledge not to pass any bill that is outside our Constitutionally enumerated powers.”
But no, they’re in no way saying that!
Like the entrenched apparatchiks that they are, they have essentially said that all the new bills THEY pass that increase the size and scope of the federal government will include a throwaway line citing either the Commerce Clause or the Supremacy Clause.
04/01/2010 2:04:40 PM PDT
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Like I've posted on here several times before: There's no way, no plausible way Romney can be the Republican nominee. RomneyCare is hung around his neck like a blinking scarlet letter, and no amount of used car speak can EVER remove it. The people that go utterly insane and have seizures over the mention of his name should chill, because Mittens ain't going anywhere.
People said the same thing about McCain after the immigration debacle.
"If we go in the direction of dividing our conservative effort in the general elections, why we'll just basically turn the country over to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid and that would be very sad indeed...," he said.
"Our" conservative effort, Romney?!? Typical straw man--no one's dividing the conservative effort. We're fighting the enemy without--statists like Obama, Pelosi and Reid--and the the enemy within--statists like Romney and his ilk.
And you don't fight statists by voting for them. "Our" conservative efforts-pfft.
Wow. So in other words, through RomneyCare Romney raised taxes on the other 49 states, or more likely, raised taxes for our children and grandchildren via the deficit. What a slimy worm he is.