sear
Advisor, aka "bub"
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2017
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- Adirondack Park, NY
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Oh! What a terrible propeller!"I had not noticed any hares here, but if you mean splitting hairs, I guess you're close to being right." T7 #22
Congress is, according to the Constitution."No one is levying war against the United States" G4 #23
For precisely the same reason Nobel laureate economist Dr. Milton Friedman said it does."No. Why do you think drug laws have anything to do with aiding and abetting the nations enemies?" j #24
Nice and slow:
a) Q: Are the extremely wealthy illegal drug kingpins like Pablo Escobar enemies of the United States?
Hint: the answer is: yes they are. And if they are not, then why the %$#@ are we waging War against them?!
b) Q: Why are they so wealthy? Didn't el Chappo show up on the Forbes 500 list?
Their drug is illegal. And they earn vast $fortunes with it.
How many liquor store owners (legal) do you know that command vast $fortunes?
c) As Dr. Friedman explains, it's the black market, it's the prohibition, it's the "Drug War" that boosts their profits.
Remove the prohibition (as we did with our 21st Amendment), and the spectacular profit margins drop out from the bottom of the market.
Excellent!"BTW, Treason is not the only crime defined. There's also piracy and counterfeiting." j #25
Please post the precise Article number and Section number for each of those DEFINITIONS so that we may read those Constitutional DEFINITIONS and learn from you legal expertise.
Thanks.
PS
I just completed two separate character string searches in our Amended Constitution.
- One for "piracy". I got zero hit. To my knowledge that character string is not in the United States Constitution.
- The other for "counter". I got only one hit, in ARTICLE 1. SECTION 8 - 6
Art.1 does not DEFINE "counterfeiting". Instead it is merely designated as punishable there. Art.3 Sect.3 DEFINES treason.