"States Rights", RIP

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT
From GONZALES v. RAICH (PDF):
"Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything--and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." -- Justice Thomas (dissenting)

From clairefiles:

"The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste? " -- Dave Barry

From farnamsquips:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -- Aristotle

From jomama:

"Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity." -- Lord Kitchener

From clairefiles:

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" -- Albert Einstein

# Laurence M. Vance at LewRockwell.com - State Sanctified Murder - Mr. Vance says that some "Christian" ministers are telling their congregations that killing in war doesn't violate the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." Bull. Premeditated murder is premeditated murder, no matter how many people vote for it. [jim]

It doesn't take a Ph.D. in theology or even a Bible-college education to see that killing someone for the state in an aggressive, unconstitutional, non-defensive, foreign war is immoral. Killing someone for the state can be murder for the simple reason that the state can sanctify nothing. It is the state itself that needs sanctification. The state is the greatest killing machine in history. The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history precisely because of state aggression.

# Doris Colmes at LewRockwell.com - Papiere Bitte - a warning about Real ID from a survivor of Nazi Germany. [clairefiles]

No one ever forgets stench. Whether it is a long-forgotten encounter with a ripe skunk, or a ripe egg, or a ripe decomposing body, once one of those odors has been brain-documented, then even the slightest tinge of such an aroma pops back up immediately, along with the circumstances under which it first offended the nostrils.

And, that's what's happening now. I smell the long-forgotten skunk, the long-forgotten rot of fascism. What is happening all around can no longer be denied. What I ran away from so desperately in 1938 is coming back full circle. Only the jack-boots have not yet arrived.

America quite literally saved my life. The love and gratitude deep in my heart for this country will never go away. But I'm scared now. Haunted by deep fear for the generations to come, who may wind up as I did -- looking over their shoulders, scurrying for cover, mute with terror. And it hurts.

John Farnam's Quips - 01 June 05 - comments from a friend of Mr. Farnam's on Walter Mitty types who own lots of expensive guns, but don't know how to use them. The source of the Aristotle quote above. [farnamsquips]

Comment: I advise many students who indicate they want to buy a $5,000.00 pistol to, instead, buy a $500.00 pistol and $4,500.00 worth of ammunition and professional training. In the end, they'll have a superior pistol, and they may even know how to use it for some practical purpose!

# CNN - Supreme Court allows prosecution of medical marijuana - If you can't grow marijuana in your own yard or closet and smoke it in your own home with (or without) a doctor's recommendation and no state prohibition, I guess the Commerce Clause and fedgov's powers now have no limit. Amerika, land on its knees and home of the slave. [claire]

Under the Constitution, Congress may pass laws regulating a state's economic activity so long as it involves "interstate commerce" that crosses state borders. The California marijuana in question was homegrown, distributed to patients without charge and without crossing state lines.

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