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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (201130)	11/7/2001 10:42:36 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

All you have to do is ask. I'll tell you what I think, but go back and read your post and check out the tone of it. Pretty nasty imo. My original comment was that if someone has a "states rights" position it doesn't preclude them from acting against a state position that is illegal or unconstitutional. That was my entire point. Do you agree with that, or do you feel that if someone is a "states rights" believer that would exclude them from acting regardless of how bad the law was? On to a different issue, which is whether Ashcroft is correct in his view against this law. I do not know whether it is unconstitutional or not. My personal opinion is if someone wants to kill themselves, let them do it. I could care less. I don't think laws against suicide are very practical. How do you penalize the guy? In general if one wants to kill him or herself they are fairly weak people imo. That said, I have never had a terminal illness and concede that it is possible, although highly unlikely, that I would kill myself. Also, a law saying I should not do it would not stop me anyway. And again, if someone wants to do it that is not in my family I don't care. If they were in my family I would probably try to talk them out of it. Ascroft obviously has a different view than mine, but I am ok with that. In CA the voters made it legal to smoke and buy pot for medical reasons but the Clinton justice department shut it down (although it still goes on) based on fed laws. What do you think of that?