Re: Libertarians: Thank Limbaugh

Manny Davis wrote:
> Brother Nate wrote: 
> > I respect whatever laws my state enacts, 

> Yeah, nowadays you do.

Some people believe in the democratic process.  Some don't.

There are times when I've called for changes in law, or as
I have in the area of drug law, changes in sentencing
recommendations, and I am very specific about why I think
they should be carried out the way I have outlined.

The was once a time in the US when passions over a law were
so fierce that they drove the nation to war.  More Americans
died in the Civil War than on all of the battlefields of
all of America's other wars combined, before and since.
While I view the cause of defeating slavery as perhaps the
most noble thing that America has ever done, I also consider
the method by which it was accomplished to have been the
greatest tragedy we have ever undergone.

The democratic process is not as rapid a way to change as
swinging the butcher's knife, but it's still the better
way.  To the extent there are differences of opinion about
drug law, my preference is that they be settled with the
pen rather than the sword.

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