Posts by UglyTruth
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I know what natural law means, and anyone who does a Google on the term will know pretty quickly. UT wasn’t deviating from the usage in any original way.
I'm pretty sure that I haven't mentioned natural law - the law of nature isn't really the same thing. The law of nature I'm referring to is that which was described by Blackstone.
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And English common law dictates that kids must attend Bible class?
No, it definitely doesn't.
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Common law is much older than your religion and the invention of your gods.
I'm only interested in English common law, as it applies to NZ
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Promoting medicinal use of cannabis would be the most likely approach to succeed IMO.
"Recognizing that the medical use of narcotic drugs continues to be indispensable for the relief of pain and suffering and that adequate provision must be made to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs for such purposes" SINGLE CONVENTION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS, 1961
http://www.theweedblog.com/marijuana-is-a-common-effective-remedy-to-ease-back-pain/
A recent research project at the University of Colorado’s Spine Center looked at 200 patients suffering from degenerative disc problems and other back pains. Of the participants that consumed marijuana, 89% said “it greatly or moderately relieved their pain, and 81% said it worked as well as or better than narcotic painkillers.” Participants in the study that consumed marijuana used it “no more than one or two times a day”.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
"Can we move the discussion on rather than get bogged down in futile, point scoring semantics?"
The ugly truth is that this is Ugly Truth’s modus operandi
Says the legal eagle who defended the state's fictional description of the common law, but can't explain why Blackstone would contradict his position.
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Another look at the "war on drugs" as a money making venture for the dark state:
Police seized a cache of 35 kilos of illegal drugs found on an American-registered Swearingen Merlin twin–engine turbo-prop during an initial search, sources told ABC Australia, and said one local man, already known to police, had been arrested.
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numerous commentators have claimed it is only a beltway issue and is now over.
Wishfull thinking.
No vast right wing conspiracy here, nothing to see, move along now. -
My brain hurts. Lawyers are good at churning out buckets of spurious tosh, but that personam stuff is even more spurious than the usual sort.
Yeah, it’s not the easiest topic to wrap your head around. One way of dealing with it is via the aphorism that the map is not the territory, where the map is the person and the territory is what the person actually represents. This treats a person as a representation, whether a physical representation, eg a man’s person, or an intangible representation, eg a legal person as a representation of a company.
To further complicate the issue the civil state tends to treat people and and persons as being equivalent terms, while the difference between people and persons is very important at common law, especially when you’re looking at responsibility in the context of people, citizens, and the state.
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It’s a rather weird argument, because common law isn’t exactly a static beast, which is kinda sorta the entire point.
Yes, common law isn't static, but it's not so fluid that it can disown its own source.
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And once again, when challenged on an issue, you alter your initial positon to try to pretend that what you said wasn’t actually what you meant.
In what way do you think that my position has changed?