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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I'm not the one who "sees" a right of privacy in the Constitution.
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I find it implicit in the second amendment.
Literalists are funny animals. I find them really interesting because they're always harping about consistency and adherence to the letter of things, except of course when they don't like the way the letters read, in which case they embrace "conservative interpretation", more honestly known by those who like to interpret text as "ideological interpretation."
A great case in point is the govt's drug policy (I hate to hit this easy nail so often, but a finer example of how full of shit most 'conservatives' are can't be found). The false conservatives like to scream for states rights on every issue imaginable. But then, when the states use their rights - to a laudable end, since the Fed Drug policy is 'unconstitutional' under most literalist's standards - suddenly, the conservatives (save intellectually honest, and therefore rare, true conservatives like Buckley) are all about Federal pre-emption. Hmm. The states should have the right to regulate abortion, but not marijuana use? The Fed govt should keep its hand off the states when they get involved in seriou issues like abortion, but should get involved in matters like cancer patients and hippies trying to smoke weed?
Give me a fucking break. I see no honest conservatives anywhere. I see people who want limited govt unless and until that limitation allows other people to act in ways that offend those "conservatives" At least I'm fukcing honest. I'll tell you where I'm coming from. These fucking "conservatives" are always hiding their agenda and the reason is simple - they are the party of less liberty. They deep down want to control people. Their core belief is that we're better off if certain moral notions they like are enforced on everyone else. Call yourself what you are, will you? You're nothing more than the moralizing mirror image of the liberals who think we should all be hyper-regulated like children because we don't know what's good for us.
