Redundancy, you say? Too much red tape? Reorganizing Idaho government to make it more efficient? Well, do I have an idea from Nebraska for you!
This year, Idaho legislators tackled a vexing problem. Some places in the state were flying the rainbow flag, the symbol of gay pride! Determined to ensure that visitors to The Handmaid State didn’t confuse Idaho as a place that would be welcoming of LGBT people, they passed House Bill 96, which only allows the American flag, the Idaho (or other states’) flag, the city flag, and military flags to be displayed by any government entity.
Mere possession of a pot pipe is a misdemeanor with a potential one year jail stay. Making or selling a bong, however, is a felony with up to nine years in prison and a $30,000 fine.
A federal judge has placed an injunction on Idaho’s House Bill 83, the so-called “Immigration Cooperation and Enforcement Act” that creates
Pocatello cops arrive to the scene of a non-verbal autistic boy with a knife and gun him down within 20 seconds from behind a chain link fence. Video shows they made no effort to de-escalate the situation and didn’t even bother to back away from the fence before opening fire.
With it’s abortion bans, abortion trafficking ban, abortion bounties, faith-healing child abuse exemption and more, Idaho is the state voted Most Likely to Become Gilead in my latest poll of me.
Alabama and Idaho want to prosecute women who obtain abortions in other states. I explain how that sounds a bit like the case of Dred Scott, the Black man who escaped his enslavement and moved to a free state, only to be returned by a Supreme Court that declared him property.
Cops ought to cherish their authority and position so much that any other cops who goes bad like this ought to be treated worse by the cops that bust them, just for tarnishing the badge. It ought to be next to impossible for there to be bad cops, because the good ones would never stand for malfeasance in their ranks.
That means if incestuously pregnant teenage daughter wants an abortion, she has to report her incestuous rape by daddy to the police. Which could be complicated by, oh, I don’t know, say an incestuous abusive daddy that tells daughter to keep a secret or else he’ll kill the whole family with the Idaho-beloved AR-15 he keeps lovingly displayed on the wall.
Thanks to a couple of forgotten blue laws, straight sex can land you in jail in Idaho, but gay sex cannot.
The Senate has already made national news for the efforts of an ironically-named State Sen. C. Scott Grow trying to pass a constitutional amendment to forever ban medical marijuana.
“This legislation will ensure illegal drugs stay illegal.” That’s the thrust of C. Scott Grow’s amendment to enshrine drug prohibition forever into the Idaho Constitution.
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