Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!TRADER
From: TRADER@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: alt.flame,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Just say "No, you're an idiot"
Message-ID: <3203@cup.portal.com>
Date: 14 Feb 88 03:07:22 GMT
References: <1899@optilink.UUCP> <518@ddsw1.UUCP> <382@igloo.UUCP> <187@soleil.UUCP> <1289@homxc.UUCP>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 24
XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2271

In addition to Wharf Rat's posting I add the following -

I urge the right-wing "Just say no" lunatic fringe to carefully read
the US Constitution especially Article 1, Section 8 - Powers of Congress
and show me anywhere where the government is given the authority to
regulate private vices. This section contains provisos for regulating
commerce, but I have yet to find anywhere that gives any power to anyone
to legislate what adults do in private.

Amendment IV - Right of search and seizure regulated
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,
and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized."

A question for the right wing - do you honestly think that using a tank
to drive through someone's house in search (as they do in Los Angeles)
of drugs, or kicking down doors and using heavily armed DEA agents in
surprise raids (as they do in Northern California - the CAMP program)
complies with the 4th Amendment to the Constitution???

                                          TRADER@cup.portal.com
                                          TRADER%cup.portal.com@sun.com