LEAP forwarded us an interesting tidbit recently. Apparently, Senator Charles Grassley would prefer everyone on the legalization side of the fence just keep their mouths shut on the subject. As LEAP puts it on their blog:
Sen. Charles Grassley, author of the censorship amendment to the National Criminal Justice Commission Act, was asked about his anti-speech tendencies by a reporter on a conference call today. The full transcript is below, but here's the most interesting part of what Sen. Grassley said: "[T]he point is, for them to do what we tell them to do. And one of the things that I was anticipating telling them not to do is to -- to recommend or study the legalization of drugs."
Also of note,the reporter then follows up to ask if his amendment would also ban discussion of medical marijuana by the commission, and the senator says "yes."
The best part just might be where Sen. Grassley tells the reporter that, "you want everything on the table." Yeah, except for sensible policy options like legalization, right?
See, I kind of prefer it when the people attempting to run the country just stop pretending that they have any interest in democracy and just get down to admitting that they want to shut these fucking plebeians up already. It's that real sense of honesty that I appreciate.
