Sensenbrenner Wants to Jail Your Mom If You Smoke Pot
I had never heard of "Rep. Sensenbrenner":http://www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/ from Wisconson until last night when I saw this "movie of how Sensenbrenner conducts the democratic process":http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/6/10/54149/5115 (Funny and embarrassing for America). Then today I ran across "this bill":http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR01528:@@@L&summ2=m he's introduced to impose 2 years mandatory imprisionment for people who know about someone that smokes pot around a child or in a college campus and doesn't report it. Hello? There'd be nobody left to go to college. Idiot. Stalin did the same type of thing, requiring people to spy on their neighbors.
Here's a quote from the "Boston Globe Article":http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/13/the_medical_pot_hysteria/ .
"The persecution of medical marijuana users is one example. Here's another: Under a congressional bill proposed by Republican Representative James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, if you are aware of any drug use or sale on a college campus or in a home with children and fail to report it within 24 hours, you will face a minimum two-year prison sentence. Maybe we could call it Uncle Joe's Law, since it has a distinct flavor of the Stalin-era Soviet Union where people could be imprisoned for failing to report political crimes. I'm not fond of Soviet parallels for the actions of democratic government, but this parallel does suggest itself. It's all the more galling since this proposed Draconian measure is not directed at terrorists who want to kill us, but at college kids who want a few hits of pot."
I would think anyone that's surprised by the leap from "terrorist" to "pot smoker" could be justly called naive.