Bush sics new AG on tea drinkers

The Gonzales legacy of drug policy reform disaster begins. The ink is barely dry on the proclamation ordaining him as Bush's hackman and he leaps out of the gate with their first major assault on freedom of religion being waged against 140 people under the thin excuse that an herbal tea being used in their religious practice happens to be hallucinogenic. The case has been through the courts right up to the 10th Circuit and the Brazilian based church has won every ruling.

Bush wants his pet AG to take it to the Supremes and by filing the appeal, effectively prevents the church from conducting its rightful religious rite. It will cost hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to pursue this vendetta against 140 people. What a waste.

More thoughts on this here.

OOPS: Pete, whose memory I trust more than mine, points out in comments that the stay allows the use of the tea until the case is actually decided and not as I thought only until the appeal was filed. It's still a ridiculous case for the AG to be pursuing but it's good that they can't thwart the use of the sacrament in the interim.