jason at Delawareliberal posts the following about Democrat Jack Markell's latest plans: Today Jack Markell joined community leaders and public-safety advocates Monday to release his plan to make Delawareans safer in response to the recent escalation of gun violence. I have just skimmed it so far, but I really like these practical common sense steps which DON’T INFRINGE ON ANYONE’S 2ND AMMENDMENT RIGHTS. One of the proposals was the following: LAUNCH A “PARENTAL CONSENT TO SEARCH AND SEIZE PROGRAM” : to help police and parents work together to stop youth firearm possession. Through such an effort, police will seek permission from a homeowner to enter a home in search of illegal firearms belonging to juveniles and, if found, the illegal firearm is confiscated but no gun possession charges are filed. When this was tried in St. Louis, consent was given nearly all the time and half the searches turned up firearms – with 510 weapons seized and taken away from youths during an 18-month ...

...to prevent international incidents for one thing, and to prevent the abuse of old people for another. As I described before, different cultures have different perceptions of privacy of their persons....none more so than Western cultures and Latin American cultures....well it finally happened, TSA pissed off the wrong Latino.... just look at the "person of interest" to the left then read the story.....luckily they get away with it with old folks all the time..... Costa Rica protests US airport security By MARIANELA JIMENEZ, Associated Press Writer Sat Apr 26, 5:14 PM ET SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Costa Rica has suspended legal cooperation with the United States and filed a diplomatic protest over what it called the "disrespectful" treatment of its attorney general at the Miami International Airport. In a letter describing the incident, Attorney General Francisco Dall'Anese said a security officer at the airport allowed him into the United States on April 23, ...

....It is stories like this that lead me to believe we have a human rights problem in the United States. OK guys, joke is over, bring back the 4 th Amendment. April 25, 2008- A Chicago man who was in critical condition for five days after police used a Taser to subdue him outside an Ohio bar died Thursday evening. Kevin Piskura , 24, was pronounced dead at 4:17 p.m. Chicago time of injuries suffered when police in Oxford, Ohio, fired the stun gun at him early Saturday morning. At the Cincinnati hospital where he was transferred, Piskura was surrounded by friends and family who had been keeping a vigil. Police said Piskura was fighting with an officer and ignored warnings to stop. A 2006 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Piskura grew up in Ohio. He moved to Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood after graduation. In a statement released through the hospital, the Piskura family said they were overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and thanked medical staff for their efforts...

Given that in California things are different, you need to know that you can buy medical marijuana from vending machines and even learn how to buy it online. This development clearly shows that while the "war on drugs" may be worthwhile for the self-righteous and excessively uptight, it is not working any better than Refer Madness worked to prevent the spread of marijuana in the 1960's. The problem with all of this is that the war on drugs does not work, costs too much, and has expanded the size and scope of government dramatically. It has harmed more people than it has helped. It simply makes a substance that people, typically very sick people with cancer want to use to ease their pain verboten, or forbidden. In the same way that Adolph Hitler made a War on Drugs, an integral part of his school of fascist aesthetic realism , we have adopted it as a given in our culture. We tend to forget as this site reminds us that, a precursor to our war on drugs in the "States.....