Step three…
Almost nine months after a Missouri dairy was ordered to stop selling cheese made from raw milk, I share details of another hare-raising story from the Show-Me State: John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of tiny Nixa, Mo., have been told by the USDA that, by Monday, they must pay a fine exceeding $90,000. If they don’t pay that fine, they could face additional fines of almost $4 million. Why? Because they sold more than $500 worth of bunnies — $4,600 worth to be exact — in a single calendar year.
That is totally outrageous Irish. I heard the other day on Quinn and Rose that the EPA regulations would require 230,000 new employees, $21 billion… Insanity is abound…
The proposed regulations would set greenhouse gas emission thresholds above which businesses must file for an EPA permit and complete extra paperwork in order to continue operating. If the EPA wins its court battle and fully rolls out the greenhouse gas regulations, the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously — from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million.
I’m for legalization of all drugs, not just marijuana, but this statement is demonstrably false. I suppose you mean by overdose, but that’s being a little choosy.
BTW, our drug laws came not from puritanical Bible thumpers, but from racist progressives (you know, people who generally hate Bible thumpers) who were attempting to control the underclasses. The problem of legislating social mores is a problem that historically pre-dates the use of faith campaigning in pursuit of legislation to ban things. You might at least study the history of drug laws before making blanket statements about “religious zealots” champ.
I think about all those news clips I’ve seen about some local commissar busting up childrens’ lemonade/whatever stands whenever I see that smartphone ad about the little girl who becomes a lemonade mogul because her dad lent her his smartphone. Yeah, wouldn’t happen.
All this in the name of making us “safe.” Funny, a lot of people and their pets have been sickened and died from dangerous products imported from China (and other places), products produced overseas by illiterate peasants because environmental, food safety, and consumer protection regulations have made it fucking impossible to make them here (and lets not forget unions and their pals in the NLRB).
Ugh.
I know my history champ…and I understand that the laws came about due to racism against the Mexican(marijuana), Chinese(opium), and African American(cocaine) communities. Marijuana has never killed a single person…go ahead and try to make some distant link that it has if you want but I’m not buying that shit.
Guy escaped Communist Hungary, works hard as a mechanic and becomes successful, buys land, cleans it up and removes 7000 tires and goes to prison for 3 years and is fined $200k. http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/opinion-zone/2011/04/case-studies-regulation-john-pozsgai
Federal officials prosecuted John Rapanos for shoveling dirt around on his property in Bay County, Mich. The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers filed charges against Mr. Rapanos for “polluting” the wetlands by leveling the soil on his property. Under the “migratory molecule” rule, the Army Corps claims that any isolated wetland can fall under federal jurisdiction because there is a speculative possibility that a water molecule from one wetland may reach another navigable waterway. In Mr. Rapanos‘ case, the nearest navigable water is roughly 20 miles from his property. His fine was $900k and possible jail time. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/B029AB82BF92CD5F8525752E0072FC60
Another example of supposed “wetland” and people being bent over by the EPA. http://www.pacificlegal.org/page.aspx?pid=1408
Bingo bango! 
All because something is “legal” does not make it right, and all because something is “illegal” doesn’t make it wrong.
There is a differance between a criminal and an outlaw.
That would be Kill Dozer V2.0 for me…:mad:
You’ll know we’re a free country again when the people who participated in those kangaroo courts are summarily executed after a military tribunal, and their assets turned over to the victims.
Everything done in Nazi Germany was “legal” according to their laws.
Why then did you make an incorrect (by your own admission) statement regarding the root of drug laws?
Marijuana has never killed a single person…go ahead and try to make some distant link that it has if you want but I’m not buying that shit.
DUI isn’t a “distant link” and people do in fact die and kill others from driving while intoxicated on marijuana.
Burning marijuana produces the same alpha particles as tobacco and cannabis contains carcinogenic compounds; it would stand to reason that habitual marijuana smoking would eventually cause cancer.
Uh. So violating our own standards of individual rights is justifiable in the “defense of freedom?” Sounds an awful lot like the reasoning that got us where we are now.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. However, it doesn’t take much thought to realize that what happened to John Rapanos was wrong. There is clearly some sort of mental defect or elitist complex among these regulatory fanatics if they can’t see that.
Its as if they have forgotten how to be human beings. They’ve forgotten how to put themselves in someone else’s shoes and how to think for themselves. Regulatory bodies are just attempting to generate omnipotent legislation that they can look to for guidance. “Did he violate sections A, B, and C?”
“Yes”
“He’s a criminal” Its not that simple.
Abandonment of Mens Rea is a very dangerous thing.
I missed the mental defect and elitist complex caveats in the Bill Of Rights.
Its as if they have forgotten how to be human beings. They’ve forgotten how to put themselves in someone else’s shoes and how to think for themselves. Regulatory bodies are just attempting to generate omnipotent legislation that they can look to for guidance. “Did he violate sections A, B, and C?”
“Yes”
“He’s a criminal” Its not that simple.
But it’s ok to not put ourselves in someone’s shoes and deny rights to the accused in the “defense of freedom?”
Abandonment of Mens Rea is a very dangerous thing.
Mens rea was never truly abandoned (in fact it was specifically ignored) because intent was meant to be an element of criminal violation in only very narrow circumstances (like premeditation requirements for capitol murder). Why did the Founders chose to create a legal system in which mens rea isn’t a component of crime? Reference NFA enforcement and “constructive intent.”
After some more research I must admit that Marijuana has indeed killed at least one person…that poor little girl on the pink bike:sarcastic:
How much of the Bill of Rights has already been taken from us? At what point to do we get to retaliate?
In such cases of egregious persecution? Absolutely.
Would you not torture a man who placed a bomb that threatened the lives of your family and friends to find its location?
There is a point at which our own values will work against us. Where exactly is that point when we put aside our values? I don’t have a one-size-fits-all answer.
The difference between us and them is that we live here and we love our way of life. Trials used to be simple matters that dealt with actual crimes. If someone has waged war against their country by stealing the liberty and wages of decent people, that’s treason and a genuine felony (crime punishable by death). A military tribunal would be as good of a trial as any for scum of the first order.
Like the meteoric drop in crime after the Albuquerque police went on strike proved, the justice system protects criminals from decent people, not the other way around. We’d just as soon use badguys as fertilizer.
Sometimes trials are way overrated…
Yea that would really make me want to do a kill dozer :moil:
Not that I don’t agree with much of your big picture, but I’d sure as shit hate to be at the mercy of what many consider “decent people.” I can’t count the number of times “decent people” have formed opinions and conclusions about me based upon what they believed was true and have in fact been 100% wrong.
Bad enough if anything serious ever happened that I’d be at the mercy of 12 people who weren’t even smart enough to get out of jury duty, I’d hate to try my luck with a bunch of random people who “think” they are right.
Can you resize that pic please? I have a 23.5" monitor and still have to scroll way over to see anything…
Same here, but not many were crazy enough to show up at my residence and “do something” about it, probably largely a function of a lack of testicular fortitude, rather than any real worry about law enforcement.
Still I’d rather be judged or legislated to by the first 12 people out of the phone book than any dozen of the current yahoos we’ve got running around the halls of justice, or the halls of congress.