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ABANDON SENSE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE By Tim Siggia June 05, 2007 The Connecticut state legislature, our answer to the Politburo of the former Soviet Union, has been busily at work -- and that's bad news for those of us who believe in such quaint anachronisms as freedom, fiscal restraint, and general common sense. Smugly secure in the relative safety of their office, with a supposed veto-proof majority in favor of Democrats, and a "Republican" governor torn between wanting to give at least an appearance of fiscal responsibility while at the same time not compromising the liberal credentials she values as dearly as do any of her Democratic opponents, the drunken sailors, freshly armed with a projected $800-plus million surplus, have been turned loose on that favorite liberty port of theirs, the State of Connecticut. In one day -- one day, mind you -- they of the bleeding hearts have sent to the governor's desk two bills which, if enacted, not only spell disaster for Connecticut residents (the legal ones, at least), but totally defy common sense. One is the medical marijuana bill, which would legalize the growing and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, and the other is a bill which would extend in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens living in Connecticut. Governor M. Jodi Rell is not quite ready to sign on either of them; in the case of the medical marijuana she wants a provision for it to be used only for terminally ill patients. The first question that comes to my mind about "medical marijuana" is the delivery system. Admittedly I'm no doctor (and I've never played one on TV either), but I can't help wondering: must the marijuana be smoked in order to provide the desired element of relief? Couldn't the same end result come from the specific ingredient being taken in the form of capsules or injections. And why are the anti-smoking nazis not up in arms about all this? Certainly the respiratory hazards of smoking cannabis are just as great as those of smoking tobacco, if not greater. This is not my main objection, of course. The fact happens to be that growing and using marijuana, for whatever supposed purpose, is still against federal law. Legalizing it for supposed medical purposes in fact will only open up Pandora's box, and once the genie is out of the bottle it can never be put back in. We should have learned that with abortion and the Roe v. Wade decision. Once such legislation is signed into law, it becomes incumbent upon enforcers to determine where the line is to be drawn, and infinitely more difficult to enforce illegal use of the drug. On the subject of in-state college tuition rates for illegal aliens, as I put it in a letter to the Hartford Courant which will probably not be published, what part of the word "illegal" do our legislators refuse to understand? The intended recipients of this benefit are not immigrants, they are trespassers. They came into the United States illegally, jumping the line, so to speak, ahead of those who would immigrate legally as most of our ancestors did, and, under current federal law, are subject to deportation. In the face of all this, our legislature now seeks to reward them by treating them with education subsidies, which would come, of course, from our tax dollars! One cannot help but wonder if they would be so generous with their own money. Not only is this a direct slap in the face to all Connecticut taxpayers, but especially to emigres from Mexico and other countries who took the time, trouble and expense to enter the United States legally and, in most cases, become naturalized American citizens. By this time the reader no doubt wonders how many ordinary Connecticut residents were asked if they truly wanted all this. My educated guess would be a round number that begins with Z. So much for "representative government." Those who took Latin, and probably a good many more who didn't, are already aware that Connecticut's state motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet means, literally translated, "That which is transplanted yet sustains." What it ought to mean, as I have pointed out on numerous previous occasions, is, "Above all else we must be liberal." The two most recent actions of our state legislature beg a sub-motto to go along with that second one: "Abandon sense all ye who enter here." Governor's Office http://www.ct.gov/governorrell/site/default.asp E-mail: Governor.Rell@po.state.ct.us Contact the Governor by Mail Governor M. Jodi Rell House Republicans http://www.housegop.ct.gov/ Phone: (800) 842-8270 (TTD): (860) 240-0161 House Democrats http://www.cga.ct.gov/hdo/ Phone: (800) 842-1902 Phone: (800) 842-8267 (TTD): (860) 240-0160 Senate Republicans http://www.senaterepublicans.ct.gov/ Phone: (800) 842-1421 (TTD): (860) 240-0163 Senate Democrats http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/ Phone: (800) 842-1420 (TTD): (860) 240-0162 Contact the General Assembly by Mail (Legislator's Name) Hartford, CT 06106-1591 |
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