In article <6a2gt3l53lhkfo04gdih3cjgdkbv7167ch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:29:46 GMT, Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >Walter Bushell <proto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:proto-E93B6E.18244510032008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >70-1-84-166.area1.spcsdns.net:
>
> >> Speaking of politicians sucking, our esteemed and honorable governor
of
> >> the State of New York has just been brought up on a Federal rap of
> >> violating the Mann Act.
>
> >Indeed. And if someone can explain why what he did had a Federal law
against
> >it, I'd be interested.
>
> Same reason there's a Federal law against buying a handgun outside of
your
> state of residence. Different states have, legitimately, different laws
> and policies about that sort of thing; it's a monumental pain in the ass
> to have States trying to individually regulate interstate commerce with
> their own border checkpoints, etc, so if the issue is im****tant enough
to
> bother with, it's generally the Feds who do the bothering.
>
> If you want to buy a gun, you buy it in your own state according to your
> own state's laws. If you want to buy a hooker, same deal. If you're
> just looking to rent a hooker (or a gun, for that matter) you can do
that
> in a state you're just visiting, so long as the transaction stays
> in-state.
>
> But I, as a Californian, cannot simply phone over to Nevada and say, "my
> state doesn't allow machine pistols or high-class prostitutes; please
> deliver one of each", and if I do it will very properly be the Federal
> government that says "no".
>
>
> Admittedly, it may be redundant to apply the Mann act where the
underlying
> transaction is illegal in *both* states, but that just makes it extra
> stupid to be hiring one's callgirls from an out-of-state service. Of
> course the Feds are going to be dealing with interstate criminal
> conspiracies. And really, doesn't New York have its own perfectly good
> hookers these days?
He im****ted a hooker to DC. LOL! As long as Congress meets there their
will be no shortage of hookers.
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