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Listen up all you redneck, bitter clinging ignorant moronic ruralist Amerikkkanz! Here’s a new one on ya—albeit somewhat more erudite in tone.
"Today, common sense won out over ideological stubbornness as our nation’s law enforcement agency formally adopted a new and well-balanced policy on medical marijuana use...”
[Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) [on] the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) directive to agency lawyers not to prosecute individuals who use or prescribe medical marijuana in states that have legalized the drug for that purpose.]
I guess I’m just ideologically stubborn if I think we ought to follow—and enforce—the Laws of the land as they are written. I’m ideologically stubborn if I think that a work-around by fiat is not a particularly good way to go, instead of bringing the facts before The People and giving them the opportunity to change the Law if they believe it to be a bad Law.
The merits of this particular case are not what is occupying my focus, here [although the billboard on the freeway advertising “Doctors” who will give any dang fool a “prescription” for “Medical MJ” “Seniors 10% discount!” gives me a clue]. What worries me is the penchant—unquestioned by anyone—of this administration to simply create Change without playing by the rules.
What might they decide to ignore next? What other Law might they directive out of existence? And what can We The People do about it, anyway? Write your Congressman?!? Hell—they’ve been attenuated to the point where they’re ‘bout as useful as a milk bucket under a bull. And they seem not to even realize it. Or care.
Yet.... When some∅ne clings to his ideologically stubborn Maoist comrades, that’s somehow not A Bad Thing…
Funny Old World....
I think it’s a big state’s rights issue. Here in CA, for one, the People voted to pass an intiative OKing the use of medical marijuana. (It’s an effective antidote to the dreadful side-effects of chemotherapy.)
But the Feds said, no, you’ve got it all wrong.
(I could really go for that Seniors 10% discount.)
I do agree with your stand about the teeny difference between changing the rules (which wouldn’t be all that hard, except that some congressperson would have to vote for/against it), and saying “OK, now we’re going to look the other way”.
Which only means that when the whim strikes, they’ll start looking back this way.
Posted by ZZMike on 10/20/09 at 08:54 AM
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