One More Reason Mark Kohl and His Fellow Republicans are Liars and Hypocrites

Federal agents raided 13 Duval Street businesses Thursday October 16, 2008, seizing drug paraphernalia, computers and financial records in an effort to curb such sales downtown, said Mayor Morgan McPherson.

I have no use for illegal drugs, but even I think this is pretty absurd, though not for the reasons you might first guess.

Here we have McPherson and Mark Kohl bringing in the feds to do what local and state cops wouldn't do. It seems he is using the feds to carry out actions based on his personal moral and religious beliefs more than representing the people of Key West.

This is also a very good example of why Republicans are such hypocrites. They talk about state's rights and claim to support state's rights. Here is an incident that flys in the face of that. They only support state's rights when it fits in with their moral and religious agenda.

State's rights pretty much went down the toilet with the civil rights acts and more has been cut away ever sense. State's rights these days is a code word, but none of the politicians ever mention the Commerce Clause or explain what they are talking about.

State's rights mostly depend on the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution which gives the federal goverment jurisidiction in areas affecting interstate commerce. The feds got jurisdiction for civil rights laws from this clause by saying that discrimination against blacks in hotels and other places of public accomodation affects interstate commerce.

Most people today have never even heard of the Commerce Clause but this is the article of the Constitution from which almost all federal power and interference in state's rights flow.

The Commerce Clause started out as a way to restrict federal power, but today it is a license for federal power and interference in the powers of the state. This needs repeating, the framers of the Constitution wrote the Commerce Clause to RESTRICT the power of the federal government over the internal affairs of the states. Today it is used as a license by the federal government to interfere in state's rights virtually whenever the federal government wants. Anybody in the federal government who talks about state's rights is a lying hypocrite without a clue and probably a Republican.

It is applied in all areas of life, which people are not even aware of, to give the federal government power over things that are really none of their business, like today's events in Key West.

It is used in criminal law when the feds want to take jurisdiction over a crime or they think the state did not do a good enough prosecution job.

There are many cases, but a couple of examples. A guy burned down a construction site. The feds went after him because the lumber had been transported in interstate commerce. (What hasn't these days?)

In another case a guy burned down an empty apartment building he owned in Chicago. The state court found him not guilty. Then the Feds charged him with arson under federal law. Double jeopardy you say?

NO, not a chance, because the elements of the crime are different. This guy used natural gas, so you are probably now thinking that "Oh, the natural gas was transported in interstate commerce."

Again NO. The federal jurisdiction was based on the fact that the chemical that is put into natural gas to give it a smell was transported in interstate commerce. Of course the arson had no effect upon interstate commerce, but this is how the feds got jurisdiction.

So, although I am strongly opposed to illegal drugs, I am also opposed to this raid, which again shows what lying hypocrites republicans really are. Of course, the average Republican probably couldn't tell you anything about the commerce clause but would undoubtedly spout off about state's rights when he serves their agenda.

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