Abbie Hoffman Moment

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.  Abbie Hoffman

This week's Abbie Hoffman moment was brought to you by Marshall County, Kansas!

 

 

The Meaning Of Conception

I really thought I was only jesting when I wrote this post, just over a month ago, concerning Kansas Governor, Sam Browncrack, and his proposed legislation stating that life begins at conception. Apparently, the United States actually has a few morons in the judicial branch of government who actually might consider pressing charges against women for spontaneous abortions. In Mississippi and Alabama, women who have miscarried or given birth to stillborn babies have been charged and prosecuted under laws that were written to protect children from exposure to the manufacture and trade of methamphetamine, and in Virginia, legislation requiring women to report miscarriages to law enforcement has been proposed! At this point in our history, we do not have the medical technology to even begin to diagnose the cause of each and every spontaneously aborted pregnancy. How can we charge the mothers with criminal acts? What about the fathers, and possible flawed sperm?
 

It really seems as if, back in the day, when I saw this movie the first time, I heard the chorus as:
"Every sperm is sacred,
 every sperm is blessed,
 if any sperm was wasted,
 God would sure be pissed!"

 

Bring Me Another Shrubbery

An elderly couple in England were caught recently with a shrubbery in their garden, which, unbeknownst to them, was marijuana! They bought it as a seedling at a "car boot sale", which is kinda like a rummage sale in the United States. They claimed that they had no idea it was cannabis, and the police did not press charges. But they do need another shrubbery.