Heap o' Links Fri May 20, 2022

After Roe, America will face a fundamental question. … Like previous legal decisions from the era of slavery, Roe touches upon a question foundational to our constitutional order: what is a person? Significantly, it is not a question that can be answered piecemeal or by half measures. States will have to decide it one way or another.

Goes into depth on posing the question; no good answers.

Forget fetal personhood or corporate personhood. The next big battle over extending individual rights under U.S. law may come from a case involving an Asian elephant named Happy. The matter is currently being considered by New York's highest court.

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The Chinese Are Buying Up Land And Medical Marijuana Growing Licenses in Oklahoma
MJA, IOTW Report, May 20, 2022

National File: The ChiComs are buying up the Sooner State. NATIONAL FILE has discovered that there is a massive black market business in Oklahoma run by Chinese nationals. The Chinese are buying plots of farmland and residential properties in cash and setting up front businesses including medical marijuana grow houses that are driving the illegal immigration crisis and being used as fronts for human trafficking. I discussed this crisis Thursday on The Stew Peters Show.

Oklahoma State Senator Warren Hamilton confirmed the Chinese invasion of Oklahoma farmland, stating in a text message: “I authored sb1469 and sjr 45 because of this,” referring to the legislative effort to stop the ChiComs from scamming the medical marijuana system to achieve black-market economic and political dominance in America’s heartland.
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