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Old 04-16-2014, 09:39 AM
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Old 04-16-2014, 10:06 AM
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It's at the State level where it belongs.

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Old 04-16-2014, 11:02 AM
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It's at the State level where it belongs.

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By that logic, wouldn't you have to say that the state should leave it at the local level?

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To me the line is up to the inhabitants of the State. The State's the State

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Been there, done that.

Fuck States Rights.

Whenever a bagger uses the term "states rights" I know he is using it as an excuse to act like an asshole and this is the picture that pops up in my minds eye.

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His sad and mealy mouthed attempt to turn the argument around on his critics, including the ranking Republican in Tennessee, was just special - bless his heart and his pointy little head.
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Old 05-20-2014, 03:33 PM
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Fuck States Rights.

Whenever a bagger uses the term "states rights" I know he is using it as an excuse to act like an asshole and this is the picture that pops up in my minds eye.
States rights my ass. They're all for states rights...right up until the state decides that gays can marry and then it's all about the Federal Defense Of Marriage Act and other such shit.
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[QUOTE=Tom Joad;215717]Been there, done that.

Fuck States Rights.

Whenever a bagger uses the term "states rights" I know he is using it as an excuse to act like an asshole and this is the picture that pops up in my minds eye.


Exactly. Did some reading up on the Civil Rights movement lately. JFK hesitated to send federal forces into Alabama in 1961, to protect "Freedom Riders" because he was afraid it would be seen as a usurpation of "States Rights". But he ultimately came to the realization that the state government was so corrupt as to be in bed with the KKK......so he had no choice, he had to act to ensure the safety of the riders and others there to support them as Americans first.

States Rights, carried to extremes, can and have been disastrous in the past.

At what point does the federal government step in and break the will of a tyrannical state government, to protect the rights and well-being of individual American citizens?

That is the question we should be asking.

But, half the country seems to see it backwards. They want to protect the bigots, the ruthlessly greedy and the bullies. It's their "Patriotic Duty", I hear.

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