A Few More Thoughts about Gonzales v. Raich
What Were Those Justices Smoking?
Everyone please give a round of applause for the three dissenting judges, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Sandra Day O’Conner. As James Leroy Wilson points out at Independent Country, Rehnquist and Thomas are conservative judges that the left is currently vilifying. However, Republican hypocrisy did not influence them, instead they remained true to federalist ideals and ruled in favor of reason and individual rights.
As for the other six justices, their judgment remains consistent with other Supreme Court ruling over the past century that have revoked state and individual rights in favor of increasing federal power. Because of their ruling, a heartless and tyrannical government will deny 100s to 1,000s of severely ill patients the medicine that can relieve their pain. For this, the six justices deserve our scorn.
It is interesting to note that four of the six justices in the majority are liberal judges. Conventional wisdom says that these judges are preventing the overturn of Roe v. Wade. This is fitting because the Gonzales v. Raich ruling is the other edge of the Roe v. Wade sword. Those in favor of Roe v. Wade argue that it is humane and compassionate because it protects women from seeking abortions in dirty back allies with coat hangers. However, the logic that protects women by creating de facto national legalized abortion gave more power to the Bush administration to persecute sick people for the crime of seeking symptom relief. This logic says that what happens democratically on the state level is not trustworthy or valid. Therefore, despite Constitutional bounds, power remains at the federal level to run everyone’s lives; whether they like it or not.
At certain moments in American history, states stood up to the incursion of federal authority. I hope this turns out to be one of those moments. My dream is that the governor of a medical marijuana state along with the state’s legislature and citizens declare their intention to protect medical marijuana patients from federal prosecution. I am NOT asking for a violent uprising, but a political gesture that brings more attention to the tyranny at hand. Maybe, the next time the feds raid the home of a medical marijuana patient in California, they will find Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger standing there in a show of defiance.
Finally, follow this link to read the sad story of Peter McWilliams, one of the pioneers of the crusade for medical marijuana.
Everyone please give a round of applause for the three dissenting judges, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Sandra Day O’Conner. As James Leroy Wilson points out at Independent Country, Rehnquist and Thomas are conservative judges that the left is currently vilifying. However, Republican hypocrisy did not influence them, instead they remained true to federalist ideals and ruled in favor of reason and individual rights.
As for the other six justices, their judgment remains consistent with other Supreme Court ruling over the past century that have revoked state and individual rights in favor of increasing federal power. Because of their ruling, a heartless and tyrannical government will deny 100s to 1,000s of severely ill patients the medicine that can relieve their pain. For this, the six justices deserve our scorn.
It is interesting to note that four of the six justices in the majority are liberal judges. Conventional wisdom says that these judges are preventing the overturn of Roe v. Wade. This is fitting because the Gonzales v. Raich ruling is the other edge of the Roe v. Wade sword. Those in favor of Roe v. Wade argue that it is humane and compassionate because it protects women from seeking abortions in dirty back allies with coat hangers. However, the logic that protects women by creating de facto national legalized abortion gave more power to the Bush administration to persecute sick people for the crime of seeking symptom relief. This logic says that what happens democratically on the state level is not trustworthy or valid. Therefore, despite Constitutional bounds, power remains at the federal level to run everyone’s lives; whether they like it or not.
At certain moments in American history, states stood up to the incursion of federal authority. I hope this turns out to be one of those moments. My dream is that the governor of a medical marijuana state along with the state’s legislature and citizens declare their intention to protect medical marijuana patients from federal prosecution. I am NOT asking for a violent uprising, but a political gesture that brings more attention to the tyranny at hand. Maybe, the next time the feds raid the home of a medical marijuana patient in California, they will find Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger standing there in a show of defiance.
Finally, follow this link to read the sad story of Peter McWilliams, one of the pioneers of the crusade for medical marijuana.
Grace, Love & Peace August Ecklund at 8:43 PM
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