07/05/05

This past term, the Supreme Court handed down two rulings that will have a catastrophic effect on our personal freedom. In Gonzales v. Raich, the court ruled that the Constitution's clause to 'make regular' interstate commerce permitted federal agents to raid the home of a sick woman and confiscate the six marijuana plants she was growing for her own medication -- all in a state whose population had overwhelmingly voted to legalize medical marijuana. In Kelo v. City of New London, the court found that the phrase 'public use' in the Fifth Amendment allows local governments to snatch land from law-abiding people, and sell it off to wealthy developers. Both cases will have negative repercussions for liberty that reach far beyond their specific facts...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161422,00.html

from Fox News, by Radley Balko


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp