Killing the Real Criminals

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 5:05 PM -0700 12/16/97, Steve Schear wrote:
>>Back in the Depression, the FDR-bullied Supremes ruled that a farmer
>>feeding his own grain to his own hogs was affecting interstate commerce
>>(in violation of federal regs on grain production), because he would
>>otherwise have been buying grain that might have come from another state.
>>Similarly, the federal drug laws contend that there's federal jurisdiction

>I believe this is the type of systemic constitutional abuse, fostered by
>SC's expansive interpretations, which Jim Bell was attempting to address
>via AP.


Well, my personal view is that all of these burrowcrats and judges
certainly identified themselves as "needing killing."

Whether Bell's lottery system is the best way to accomplish this is
debatable, but these folks sure did earn a bullet.


--Tim May



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