Congressman Ron Paul vs. Governor Timothy Pawlenty: The Doctor vs. The Sadist

One of the most despicable of all human actions is to not render comfort to the dying when it is within ones powers. But this is exactly what the sadistic Governor of the supposedly-Liberal State of Minnesota has done in vetoing a bill, passed by the Minnesota State Legislature the other day, that would have permitted the use of medical marijuana by the terminally ill.

This is one of the most heinous and despicable rulings one can ever remember a Governor making, and it will go down in American History as one of the most callous, immoral, and self-serving political decisions on record. This is yet another one for the history books of the future, when those growing up will spit on the memories of those prohibitionists who have caused such unmitigated misery to so many millions of Americans  for such a long time. In the far future, the phrase “a real Governor Pawlenty” will be used interchangeably with the names of Uriah Heep, and Ebenezer Scrooge. “Let them die off in agony, and reduce the surplus population, thereby reducing healthcare costs in the budget”.

What a difference in courage and statesmanship is exhibited by a Ron Paul, when we contrast his political positions on cannabis, and on all drugs, to that of  a Governor Pawlenty. Going directly in the teeth of his party’s traditional support for the Communistic drug laws, Congressman Paul has courageously taken a longstanding view that government has no right to interfere with individual Liberty, if it affects the property rights of no one else. In other words, live and let live, unless you stick a gun in my face, or pollute the air I breathe with asbestos, or defraud me.

But Dr. Paul has gone farther than that and posed the key question: By what right has government taken over the responsibility of telling us what we can put into our bodies, of what we can own or do that affects no other person? Why have we given government this total control over our personal Liberty?

In other words, why have Americans, who were born so well fixed in the paths of Liberty at the start of their Republican Revolution — a revolution that used to be admired the world over for its Libertarian content — become so passive that they will elect prohibitionists and immoralists like Governor Pawlenty for decades on end? Why don’t we put Individual Rights before the appropriation of those rights by Government, as ruled in the “broad” interpretations which the courts have taken since the end of the Taft Supreme Court (not that we endorse Taft’s views on the court; we prefer Justice Holmes over Taft any day).

Perhaps Governor Pawlenty will one day find himself faced with a terminal illness, (but perhaps he thinks he is immortal, the young often do)? Perhaps he will want medical succor to alleviate his stress? Perhaps, though, he will find he still has a sadist like himself in the Governorship of Minnesota, and a populace not willing to impeach such a moral miscreant? Hard cheese, eh Gov?

Perhaps Governor Pawlenty should look himself in the mirror, if he can bear it, though the visage of a grinning Joe Stalin might come back at him from its silvered surface?

Perhaps Governor Pawlenty should take a lesson from a real Statesman, Al Smith of New York, the Democratic Candidate for the Presidency in 1929, who knew what Individual Libertarian Values meant when he said this, in regard to the end of Prohibition and the Repeal of the hateful 18th Amendment in 1933: “I felt all along that when this matter was finally submitted to the rank and file of our people, they would readily see that it had no place in our Constitution. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to estimate the benefit that will come to this country from the lesson taught to the coming generations, to make it their business to see that no such matter as this is ever again made the subject of Federal Constitutional Law.” It looks like the Governor of Minnesota missed this lesson from Al Smith, a man who had more morality in his little finger that Governor Pawlenty has in his whole hulk. Such is the the degeneration in the spirit of Liberty and Morality we have seen since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. (It’s no surprise that Smith bitterly opposed Roosevelt’s nomination in 1933, opposed his economic policies as unsound, and ended up as head of the American Liberty League.)

And finally, Governor Timothy Pawlenty ought to take a lesson from a real Statesman like Congressman Ron Paul, and get his Fascist paws off our elders dying in agony. What a contrast in the integrity of human beings! between Congressman Paul and Governor Pawlenty!

Guess that’s how silverwolves can tell the Men from the Miscreants.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Tags: Al Smith, American Liberty League, Governor Timothy Pawlenty, Individual liberty, Libertarianism, medical cannabis, medical marijuana, Minnesota medical marijuana, prohibition, Ron Paul