pyroguysr's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supreme Court Upholds Right To Die Mark this on your calendar, folks. It's not always that I agree with the liberal side of the Supreme Court bench. Tuesday, the Supreme Court, in a 6-4 decision told John Ashcroft to go to hell and quit using strong-arm tactics against doctors in Oregon that are helping people under the State Law that allows assisted suicides. For once, these Justices managed to actually read the Constitution (without reading some airy-fairy, ethereal bullshit into what it says), and specifically, the 10th amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." They are now saying that Congress will try to write an anti-assisted suicide law. To them I point in the same direction toward the Constitution that my dear Republican Party and their various mouthpieces are so vocal in "upholding" (but only when it's in their own self-interest). It's not in your fuckin' realm, boys and girls! THIS is a States Rights issue! Maybe, when they shut their yaps up long enough, they will realize that this can only benefit the Conservative cause (because no self-respecting conservative would actually consider suicide!) Until then, I'm at odds with my more Christian Conservative bretheren. The voters, THE PUBLIC of Oregon have spoken! Leave them alone! 1:51 a.m. - 2006-01-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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