Time For Change In Kentucky?

[tszasz4u]

To be sure, there are limits to free speech in the American polity, however, such is not arbitrary; such limits have been set by judicial precedence.

The state's continued course of prosecuting the war on drugs is arbitrary and not Constitutionally justified-just the opposite. It is the continued war on drugs, as bureaucratic-administrative fiat, and not that of amending the Constitution, as did the Volstead act, later repealed by the twenty-first amendment, some thirteen years later.

 

[Monty Floyd]

Not to anyone in particular but to all in general:

Most of what Washington does is not authorized in the Constitution.
-Making certain substances illegal
-Tax on earnings (direct tax not apportioned)
-Federal Reserve
-Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
-Foreign aid
-nearly every military conflict since WWII
-Preemptive invasions of sovereign countries (based on lies and false flag operations)
-Overthrowing foreign powers to install puppet regimes
-the Patriot Act
-Obamacare
-the National Firearms Act
-Violating all but the 3rd Amendment in the Bill of Rights
... and a host of other infringements of our natural rights

I get concerned when I hear people put so much emphasis on one issue. What good would it be to put power in the hands of those that will give what you want most (leagalize cannabis) but take away all your other rights and property? The pro-choice/pro-life argument is the same. Ron Paul is pro life but because he believes, and rightly so, that the federal government has no legal say in the matter, consequently, people will not vote for him on a national scale.
I am from Dr Paul's district and you can look it up, everyone who has run against him has lost miserably and that includes other Republicans that were endorsed by the "old guard" of the party. Just go back and look at how he was treated during the 2008 campaign. He would win or place very high in post debate polls. After a debate on Fox and he won their phone in poll, Hannity sat there and whined about how the "Paulites" were scamming the vote by calling in more than once. Not so, I tried to call in a second time to test that allegation, but was denied. Then when Hannity interviewed Dr Paul, he was rude, argumentative and condescending towards him, arguing about his foreign policy. Guiliani, Romney and McCain got only softball questions and their asses kissed. That is only one example, that went on for the entire campaign. How much more obvious can the socialist left, corporate war machine be?
For those that voted for Obama, where is the "change we can believe in"? It looks to me as though it's business as usual in the White House.
I am NOT a fan of Fox News, I wouldn't piss on Bill O'Reilly or Shawn Hannity if they were on fire, but I DO like Fox Business News (I wish I could get it here). If you would like to hear what lovers of freedom and liberty sound like, check out Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano (no relation to Janet) and John Stossel. If you can't get Fox Business, go to their website and you can see their videos.
The US is the richest and most powerful nation in the world and yet our children lag behind nearly every other country when it comes to education, except for how much is spent on them.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
--C.S. Lewis

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Martin Niemoller

... whew, I'm worn out, I'm gonna take a toke and then a nap

 

[tszasz4u]

Pres. Obama's suggestion that drug (ab)use be seen as a "public health issue", is consistent with those who have it the "best interest" of the body politic to continue the course of both persecuting and "treating" drug users of all stripes. It seems to me to be a version of "bad cop-good cop". Under the justification of good medicine, and of a paternalistic, meddlesome state protecting individuals from the burden of responsibility, Obama has managed to skirt any discussion of civil rights abridgements in the name of prosecuting and persecuting "inappropriate" (read: not legally and therapeutically sanction by the state) drug use! This war on drugs, waged with equal fervor by the left and the right, is chemical statism! Believing the war on drugs to be necessary, no matter the costs, is neither patriotic nor prudent!

Has it come to be that the only political virtue is that of obedience? It might have been the late Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, who warned Americans, that the greatest vigilance should be applied to those whose measures are well intentioned! My natural and anterior right, before any law of men, to take into my body or mind, as I see fit, trumps all efforts of the drug socialist and therapeutic zealot to deny me same!