Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I always liked this quote from Stranger in a Strange Land:
“ . . . a politico-judicial decision unparalleled in jug-headedness since Doheny was acquitted of offering the bribe Secretary Fall was convicted of accepting.”
Well, unparalleled until [last Thursday].
United States Supreme Court upheld Obamacare requirement that everybody buy health insurance or pay a penalty on the grounds that although the law says it’s a penalty, it’s really a tax, and therefore Constitutional. But it’s not an actual tax because if it were, it would be unconstitutional. So it’s a tax, but not a tax.
Chief Justice Joseph Heller, writing in the majority…
And Minnesota Supreme Court upheld DWI convictions based on the Intoxilyzer breath test machine because the State showed that more likely than not the machine was accurate. You’re guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of .08 Or More because the .08 shown on the machine probably is correct.
And society’s downward spiral continues.
Joe Doakes
Como Park
“Because government says so and wants to” is becoming a binding precedent.
Meh, just catching up to Vermont. We had a guy there convicted of DWI who was convicted of being behind the wheel of his car in his own driveway while drunk. And the Supreme Court there upheld the conviction since the guy’s driveway was part of the road system.
Oh, and did I mention the car was on blocks and couldn’t move?
Justice and the legal system are only tangentially related anymore.
Yeah, I’ve know guys who were pinged for DUI while walking away from stalled cars, Sleeping in cars that weren’t running, Looking longingly at cars. Love your police state. Or else.