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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTelling States To Ignore Federal Laws Is Tantamount To Sedition Or Encouraging Insurrection.
When a public official publicly tells states that they should ignore federal law and probably the federal court orders it looks like sedition or encouraging insurrection. This kind of backlash towards recent gay marriage is a dangerous precedent for the country. The last time this sort of thing happened federal troops were sent to end segregation. In 1860 it led to full blown civil war.
The question is where does this nonsense stop. Where does this madness all go after the LGBT gay marriage backlash. What other laws will be ignored. And what about laws telling the law to arrest people approving marriage licenses. Or telling states to arrest federal authorities who enforce legitimate federal laws laws in individual states. The recent Bundy incident is actually insurrection and the feds had a right to take them by force in necessary.
Things are getting out of hand and anyone who tells the states to ignore the federal government should be sanctioned or forced to resign.
dilby
(2,273 posts)Are going against federal law with legalized marijuana?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)The same cannot be said of laws prohibiting persecution of gays.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)on both counts. They believe the horseshit drug war propaganda about pot and believe the horseshit theocratic propaganda about gays.
It isn't sedition or insurrection, that is just hyperbole. It could become either if taken to an extreme, which is not likely to happen.
The real difference is that cannabis prohibition seems to have a perhaps addressable 10th amendment/commerce clause conflict that could be settled in the courts in favor of the states, while gay rights are within the domain of the 14th amendment - we all have all the same rights at a national, not a state, level.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)They would tell the state to stop selling. There would be an inconsistency on the matter of LGBT marriage right where the feds allow gay marriage and the states do not. The LGBT question is about civil right and equal protection. Marijuana legalization does not fall in that particular arena. I can see the conflict with marijuana.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)The canabis laws are about STATE criminality. State laws do not change a Federal law. If the FBI or DEA wanted to arrest people on Federal Charges, they could.
The Federal law does not require the states to criminalize canabis.
elleng
(131,099 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)to the United States.
elleng
(131,099 posts)Would be nice if someone would remind them.
anotojefiremnesuka
(198 posts)Rep. Thaddeus Stevens and General William Tecumseh Sherman both advised President Lincoln on what it would take to really end slavery and defeat the South, Lincoln chose a different path that has been proven time and time again for over 150 years to be a failure and we are still living with Lincolnâs screw up today.
gordianot
(15,243 posts)As in banning BATF from operating in Missouri. Governor Jay Dixon.. (of Ferguson MO fame) vetoed that law. That was sedition
treestar
(82,383 posts)on the relationship between the federal government and state governments.
This sounds like the failure to obey the law after Brown v. Board of Education, where the national guard has to be invoked. As a practical matter, it is a bit tougher, since forcing them to let children go to school is easier than making them perform a gay marriage. They would need the help of what few people there are in the state who are for it. It's a very red state but there must be someone in favor of gay marriage who would cooperate with the feds to enforce the law.
William769
(55,147 posts)For all to see & let it be know that this will not be tolerated.
Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)are "fiscally responsible".
Bobcat
(246 posts)See Constitution of the United States, Article VI, Clause 2.