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Originally Posted by slayda
Ricky, keep us up to date on your Federal Case & while you're talking to them see if we can't get euthanization for people in that bad a condition. I know I would rather die than suffer to that degree but that should be the individual's choice. Unfortunately humans can't be humane to humans, only to "dumb animals" as if we aren't pretty dumb ourselves.  |
My case won't really touch on that issue, although I absolutely support the right of a person with a terminal illness or in unbearable pain to be able to choose an early death as an option to continued suffering.
How-some-ever ... my case will be based on the fact that the ordinance, as written, is over broad, and attempts to regulate something over which the "state" has no authority.
For example .... the state (and by the "state", I mean the City of HSB) has the authority to prevent a house from becoming a "public health hazard." And, they have the authority to prevent animal abuse. However, I submit that they do not have the authority to enact an ordinance that assumes that any house (regardless of its size) is automatically a public heath hazard or a site of animal abuse, the instant the number of animals at that location is greater than four.
Further, I dispute their authority to demand that I submit myself and my property to warrantless police searches twice a year in order to retain my current animals.
I'm also hitting them on several other Constitutional issues .... not that any of the people in this area understand word one of the US Constitution. They are much too busy trying to force me to (1) participate in Christian prayers, and (2) pledge allegiance to the flags of both the United States and the State of Texas, at the so-called "public" town meetings ... to understand anything about basic civil rights.
Ooops .... I'm ranting again. Chocolate!! I neeeeeeed chocolate!!! Geoff?? Please shoot another eclair or two in my general direction!!!