Appropriate Retirement Gifts

Thursday 26 January 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

When someone decides to retire, it is often appropriate to get that person a parting gift. Sometimes a plaque is what one can expect, others might get a watch or a tie pin or a set of cufflinks, and still others should only expect a cake and a short office party. But one thing that generally shouldn’t be on the list of retirement gifts is to give someone legislation which expands the drug war even further, and further exerts even more control over other people, as was the case with Gabrielle Giffords. Fox News Latino:

It was a rare moment when Republicans and Democrats united — on a U.S.-Mexico border measure, no less.
But this bill was not just any bill.

It was the last piece of legislation offered by Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who made a painstaking effort to walk into the chambers of the House of Representatives on Wednesday to cast her last vote and to submit her resignation, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin.

Giffords’ bill would impose tougher penalties on smugglers who use small, low-flying aircraft to avoid radar detection and bring drugs across the Mexican border.

The vote was 408-0.

So Congress can’t muster a goddamn budget in over 3 years, complains incessantly on how the other team won’t play nice, being able to pass only the most “important” bills, but when it comes to making one of their own feel loved, we get a fucking unanimous vote in favor of a bill that expands the already futile, expensive, and deadly war on drugs. To them it’s all a game. Thanks, Congress. We all appreciate that when it comes to the American people, you couldn’t vote on the color of the sky, but when it comes to fellating one of your own, you pull a unanimous vote in order to honor her. The only thing I wish was that Ron Paul could have been there to spoil the vote and highlight the absurdity of what happened in the House Chamber yesterday.

Fuck you, House of Representatives. Fuck. You.

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1. Important being defined as those bills which exert greater government control over everyday Americans while they shread any semblance of Constitutional rights we have left such as the NDAA which codifies in to law indefinite detention powers over American citizens arrested on American soil, able to be held without charge, trial, or counsel and renewing and expanding the PATRIOT Act.

2012-01-26  »  madlibertarianguy