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Does the fish rot from the head?
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
   October 25, 2009

 

Does the fish rot from the head?
By Raoul Lowery Contreras

Question:  Is the Big Lie bigger when it starts in the White House?

It appears that such is the case.  It took almost four years of Bush administration sleuths to track down, identify and arrest hundreds of Mexican drug smugglers and sellers in dozens of cities around the country. The investigations were widespread and collected mountains of evidence. Despite this yeoman work by the Bush Administration Obama’s Attorney General didn’t give the Bush Administration a scintilla of credit for the bust of La Familia criminals. He took all the credit for the Obama Administration.

More interesting is that the nationwide bust occurred just days after Attorney  General Holder at the specific direction of President Obama has trashed federal laws on marijuana and turned loose a tsunami of national lawbreaking  by those among us who want their marijuana but can’t get Congress to pass laws letting up on marijuana consumption.

In other words, the entire muscle of the federal government is relaxed on white middle class and inner city denizen supporters of Obama and turned on Mexicans who can’t vote.

The bust was a propaganda effort to cover up the basic legalization of medical marijuana for Obama supporters. It was not a law enforcement victory for the Obama Administration which is more interested in allowing marijuana to be smoked by millions under the pretense of medical treatment than in having federal law enforcement enforcing federal laws.

The “Supremacy Clause” of the Constitution is quite clear; federal laws preempt state laws, period.  The exact wording is in Article VI of the Constitution, it reads: “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, Or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary, notwithstanding.”

But not now, the Constitution teacher (Obama was not a tenured professor at the University of Chicago, he was a part time lecturer) has usurped the Constitution with his order that state laws on medical marijuana preempt federal marijuana laws.

One wonders why no one has introduced articles of impeachment in the House for this “High crime and misdemeanor” of usurping the Constitution.

Are there so many marijuana law breakers preparing to vote in congressional elections that congress people are afraid they might lose their seats if they contest Obama’s turning federal laws on their heads? Or do they care?

Are they happy that Obama is picking on Mexicans and looking like Sheriff’s and Marshalls and other local yokel cops in busting those dirty scummy Mexican criminals who are illegal aliens to boot while ordering the feds to ignore massive law breaking by the great white middle class and the inner city Obama supporter?

I think they are. For years, the Mexican hating wing of America has demonized Mexicans by characterizing them all as illegal aliens breaking gigantic laws by sneaking across the border when in fact that simply isn’t true.

The laws in question are minor administrative laws that are handled administratively and rarely see the inside of a courtroom. They are not felonies.  They do become felonies when a deported alien is caught reentering the U.S. but not before. Nonetheless, led by gigantic liars like former congressmen Tom Tancredo and convicted felon Duke Cunningham, the public has been conditioned to think that all Mexicans have snuck across the border. They are further conditioned by another gigantic liar like Congressman Stephen King of Iowa who claims that illegals from Mexico are part of a huge crime wave with thousands of Americans murdered by these illegals every year.

That is a lie, Mr. King, you are a liar. So are Tom Tancredo and Duke Cunningham, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Lou Dobbs.

Marijuana has now been effectively legalized by President Obama and is available at hundreds of stores and distributers throughout California and other states because their voters have made “medical marijuana” legal in those states.

To follow that action with a superficial drug bust of Mexicans who have outsmarted local yokel cops for years and sucked billions of dollars from the weakest Americans is as big a lie as anything the loud mouthed congressmen and talk show entertainers and faux news people like Dobbs have lied about in recent years concerning Mexicans.

It is true that the fish rots from the head.
 
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