06-06-2005, 08:44 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/scotus.m...a.ap/index.html
Ironically enough, two of the dissents were Renquist and Thomas, with O'Connor being the third.
The decision itself is just pure and utter bull#$%&. Their main legal precedent is a 1942 case involving a man growing wheat for personal consumption. Wow, thank you Supreme Court. There was also a lot of legal precedent for segregation and slavery at one point, but for some reason a bunch of crazy bastards thought that segregation and slavery weren't Nice Things⢠anyway.
Whatever happend to this country being founded on personal liberties and balance of power between states and the federal government? I'm forced to wear a seatbelt at all times "for my own good". The government seeks to control what I put into my own body "for my own good". Et cetera. And now, millions of people suffering from glaucoma, AIDS, cancer, and seizures have just been denied access to the most effective medification possible "for their own good". I'm sure they're going to be very comforted that the government is "looking out for them" when they're wracked with pain and their lives are made more miserable.
#$%& that. It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach when bureaucratic knob-polishers feel the need to force their convoluted sense of morals - which should have no place in politics to begin with - upon the population as a whole.
It really makes me sad to see the policy of "My morality is now your morality... or else you get thrown in jail" perpetuated throughout our government. A couple weeks ago it was the ban on "sexy cheerleading" in Texas and now it's this. I honestly have to ask myself: What's next? Back to blue laws? Prohibition? Individuals running with scissors will be ticketed?
(Yeah, I know you guys hear a lot of this from me. But I needed to vent.)
Ironically enough, two of the dissents were Renquist and Thomas, with O'Connor being the third.
The decision itself is just pure and utter bull#$%&. Their main legal precedent is a 1942 case involving a man growing wheat for personal consumption. Wow, thank you Supreme Court. There was also a lot of legal precedent for segregation and slavery at one point, but for some reason a bunch of crazy bastards thought that segregation and slavery weren't Nice Things⢠anyway.
Whatever happend to this country being founded on personal liberties and balance of power between states and the federal government? I'm forced to wear a seatbelt at all times "for my own good". The government seeks to control what I put into my own body "for my own good". Et cetera. And now, millions of people suffering from glaucoma, AIDS, cancer, and seizures have just been denied access to the most effective medification possible "for their own good". I'm sure they're going to be very comforted that the government is "looking out for them" when they're wracked with pain and their lives are made more miserable.
#$%& that. It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach when bureaucratic knob-polishers feel the need to force their convoluted sense of morals - which should have no place in politics to begin with - upon the population as a whole.
It really makes me sad to see the policy of "My morality is now your morality... or else you get thrown in jail" perpetuated throughout our government. A couple weeks ago it was the ban on "sexy cheerleading" in Texas and now it's this. I honestly have to ask myself: What's next? Back to blue laws? Prohibition? Individuals running with scissors will be ticketed?
(Yeah, I know you guys hear a lot of this from me. But I needed to vent.)
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London