On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:16:13 -0700, "mack" <mackerel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"bgregg" <riderhood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:6duvheF4dqg2U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>> FRANKFORT, Kentucky (AP) -- The pastor of a Kentucky church that
handles
>> s****s in religious rites was among 10 people arrested by wildlife
>> officers in a crackdown on the venomous s**** trade.
>> Undercover officers purchased more than 200 illegal reptiles during the
>> investigation,
>>
>> Undercover officers purchased more than 200 illegal reptiles during the
>> investigation,
>>
>> More than 100 s****s, many of them deadly, were confiscated in the
>> undercover sting after Thursday's arrests, said Col. Bob Milligan,
>> director of law enforcement for Kentucky Fish and Wildlife.
>> riderhood
> a.. First Amendment - Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause;
freedom
>of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
>prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech,
>or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
>petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
>I'm no constitutional scholar, but the 1st Amendment to the Bill of
Rights
>seems to say that the free exercise of religion will be allowed in the
US.
>Hmmm. (Of course the 2nd Amendment makes it clear that we can all own
>machine guns, right?)
Which means that the laws the officers were acting under were
unconstitutional
in the USA, as are laws prohibitibng the use of ganja by Rastafarians.
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