Pubdate: Mon, 05 Jan 2004
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2004, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiottawa.com/ottsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n2000/a08.html
Author: David d'Apollonia
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

LUDICROUS REMARK

Your rebutting remark -- "Regardless of what you think of our drug laws, we 
can't see the Supreme Court deciding that a government's responsibility to 
regulate is unconstitutional" -- to Tom Pashkov's letter to the editor 
which stated Supreme Court justices are out of touch (Dec. 29) is ludicrous.

You got it partly right though, when commenting, "we can't see ..." for 
there are none so blind as those who refuse to open their eyes and see.

One would think that such regulatory details depend upon what is being 
regulated and in what manner.

What the hell is a Supreme Court good for, if its judges refuse to rule 
impartially on the validity of bad, destructive laws?

I'll tell you what they are "good for" by throwing it back to the 
parliamentary pit, to rubber-stamp the tyranny and exploitation of a police 
state that enforces unjust, unconstitutionally derived laws which falsely 
criminalize Canadians.

David d'Apollonia, Dollard Des Ormeaux, Que.

(The law may be nonsense, but that doesn't make it unconstitutional -- and 
a court that adjudicates on a whim is no friend to anyone)
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