ACLU smoking dope at border?

dasmi · April 19, 2005, 11:03 AM

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=43867

Seems the ACLU legal observers are lighting up at the border. Interesting.

Handy · April 19, 2005, 11:26 AM

Apparently, the ACLU volunteers were also striking a blow for other civil liberties:

http://www.aclu.org/DrugPolicy/DrugPolicyMain.cfm

Double duty, so to speak.

dasmi · April 19, 2005, 11:29 AM

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Caught in the Net: the Impact of Drug Policies on Women & Families

Of course the law is at fault for the destruction of women and families. It couldn't possibly be the abuse of drugs.

MicroBalrog · April 20, 2005, 04:54 AM

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Of course the law is at fault for the destruction of women and families. It couldn't possibly be the abuse of drugs.

Lessee, here.

The fact that under current US Federal law you can go to prison and get the law to ruin your life later - virtue of the criminal record - if you were caught with drugs in your possession...

The fact that the current law inflates drug prices by at least 1000%...

The fact that because drugs are illegal we are seeing people die from various impurities and similar stuff...

The fact that the current Prohibition is probably creating the same violence that the first one created...

The fact that RICO and similar anti-constitutional asset forfeiture laws often ruin people's lives and livelihood without even proving them guilty...

...yeah, have nothing to do with this War on Some Drugs thing.

MicroBalrog · April 20, 2005, 04:56 AM

And before I forget - where exactly does the constitution, as limited by the 10th Amendment, allow the FedGov to ban one green ounce of marijuana?

Hal · April 20, 2005, 05:09 AM

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And before I forget - where exactly does the constitution, as limited by the 10th Amendment, allow the FedGov to ban one green ounce of marijuana?

Don't they slide it in under "interstate commerce"?

MicroBalrog · April 20, 2005, 05:12 AM

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Don't they slide it in under "interstate commerce"?

"They" possibly do, the question is, is there a legitimate authority which does not depend on twisting the Constitution like a wet T-shirt?

Hal · April 20, 2005, 06:11 AM

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"They" possibly do, the question is, is there a legitimate authority <snip>

Yep - they're better armed. Funny how that seems to happen over and over and over.....

MicroBalrog · April 20, 2005, 08:55 AM

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Yep - they're better armed. Funny how that seems to happen over and over and over.....

"I have a bigger gun." The excuse of robbers, terrorists, and government agents.

buzz_knox · April 20, 2005, 10:00 AM

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And before I forget - where exactly does the constitution, as limited by the 10th Amendment, allow the FedGov to ban one green ounce of marijuana?

Nothing, although they claim the commerce clause allows them to. Regulation of substances like this properly falls to the state gov'ts under the police power reserved to them.

April 19, 2005, 11:03 AM	#1
dasmi Senior Member Join Date: January 18, 2005 Posts: 882	ACLU smoking dope at border? http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=43867 Seems the ACLU legal observers are lighting up at the border. Interesting. __________________ If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and ... try freedom. --Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty

April 20, 2005, 04:56 AM	#5
MicroBalrog Senior Member Join Date: February 22, 2002 Posts: 1,165	And before I forget - where exactly does the constitution, as limited by the 10th Amendment, allow the FedGov to ban one green ounce of marijuana? __________________ NFAOA Repeal 922(o)!

April 19, 2005, 11:26 AM	#2
Handy Junior member Join Date: August 31, 2001 Posts: 8,785	Apparently, the ACLU volunteers were also striking a blow for other civil liberties: http://www.aclu.org/DrugPolicy/DrugPolicyMain.cfm Double duty, so to speak.