Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: matth@bellatlantic.net (Matthew Hulett) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: mailing lists Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 21:36:45 GMT Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3554cb87.28175775@news.scea.sony.com> References: <35469E55.A55E0C15@hotmail.com> <6i6f16$cv04@scea> <354A7275.FA4AC277@sinclair.net> <1d8ecrv.1pc4pax1bz3cxsN@a1-88-103.a1.nl> <354D55FC.E496BA8F@sinclair.net> <1d8i0mp.41gwdabmuw4pN@a1-88-137.a1.nl> <354e0587.46010790@news.scea.sony.com> <3552a254.68280537@news.scea.sony.com> <6j2b1d$aek18@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: client-119-1.bellatlantic.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 >> >>In January 1998, Representative Bobby Moak (R-MS) proposed House Bill >>192 dubbed "Smoke a Joint, Lose a Limb." Section One states: "In lieu >>of any other penalty prescribed by law, the court may allow any >> person who is convicted for a violation of the Controlled Substances >>Law to have a body part removed. The convicted person and the court >>must agree on which body part shall be removed." >> > >Do you know is this was passed? I was wondering if anyone would notice this... I am very attentive to our Congress, and as far as I can tell, it never was even debated in committee, it certainly never made it to the floor of our House of Representatives. Republicans have an image problem of being intolerant in our country, and are afraid of losing the Congress this election come November. I wonder why...[LOL] -Matt