The DEA announced friday that doctors in Oregon that participate in doctor assisted suicides will have their licence to prescribe drugs revoked. Since when did the DEA gestapo obtain the power to regulate physician's rights to prescribe the drugs their patients need? But more important is the realization that the thugs in DC now consider our votes null and void, the _people_ of Oregon voted to allow assisted suicide, TWICE, I thought this was a government _of_ the people? In Arizona, the people voted to allow doctor prescribed marijuana for those that the doctors thought it would help relieve their pain, the governor of that state the morning after the vote declared the people of Arizona were stupid and he would block implementation of the law, what the fuck are these hicks voting for don't they read the pabulum we spoon feed them day after day about the dangers of drugs? The Kent Crispins of the world wake up, voting is a waste of time, the bastards only allow us to vote for Moe, Curly, or Larry, all of the same union of thugs, some assigned to the Republican party, some assigned to the Democratic party, soon even that fig leaf of democracy will be discarded and the maximum leader will tell us it is necessary for national security reasons to suspend voting on our leaders. Lock and Load? No I dont think so, it is pointless, go out get drunk, screw anybody that will consent, have a good time, the chains will soon clamp on your neck. Amerika love it or leave it.
At 4:50 PM -0700 11/16/97, Anonymous wrote:
The DEA announced friday that doctors in Oregon that participate in doctor assisted suicides will have their licence to prescribe drugs revoked. Since when did the DEA gestapo obtain the power to regulate physician's rights to prescribe the drugs their patients need? But more important is the realization that the thugs in
This has happened before, of course. A case in Virginia got a lot of attention not too long ago, e.g., on "60 Minutes." And here in California, where voters also passed a "medical use of marijuana" proposition, Washington is threatening revocation of doctor's licenses. There are obviously some major "states rights" issues here, and there may be some Supreme Court cases coming down the pike. A larger issue, one at a meta-level, is where "licensing" of _any_ profession or career comes from. How can some professions require licenses? Where does this authority come from? And what are the roles of ostensibly private organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association in the administration and granting of such licenses? (Long-time readers should of course know my views, that these entities are essentially modern versions of "guilds." Hardly a position original with me. But a disturbing trend, as more and more fields arrange for licensing. Economists call this "rent-seeking." The American Aptical Foddering Association sets themselves up as the arbiters of who can be an Aptical Fodderer, and rigs a deal with the police state to arrest and jail anyone who "practices aptical foddering without a license." A shakedown state.) --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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