Amazing.

The reference in the Constitution to regulating interstate commerce was intended to keep the states from imposing tariffs on one another, which had been common before the revolution. It was impossible at the time to imagine that the Federal limited governement would stick its nose into general commerce merely because it crossed state lines.

Now, FedGov regulates everything because it affects or might affect interstate commerce. We live in a tyranny introduced by Franklyn Roosevelt and never reversed, always extended.

Also amazing is that someone like J.E.Hoover would find any limitation in such an arcane area. He probably said it to give the impression that he was following the law exactly. In fact, he bent and broke every law he needed to, to expand his power. Like our current politicians.

Except now that in the Age of Obama, everything may obstruct interstate commerce. So feel free to regulate hummers!

It is a potential health care issue. Now that BigGov is involved in your medical care, they have interest in regulating your life down to the finest detail, including your sex life.

Also amazing is that someone like J.E.Hoover would find any limitation in such an arcane area. He probably said it to give the impression that he was following the law exactly. In fact, he bent and broke every law he needed to, to expand his power. Like our current politicians.

Posted by: Andrew_M_Garland at May 10, 2015 10:00 PM
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From pages 212-213 of the 2001 book "Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever" by Colin Evans (this is about the feud between Hoover and Martin Luther King):

"In the final analysis, King proved too big for all of them. Although no saint, he was heroic. The risks he took on behalf of others, awesome and ultimately catastrophic, have guaranteed his place on history's A-list, and in terms of personal bravery, he outfought Hoover at every turn. On the eve of yet another dangerous march, King once told fellow demonstrators: 'I would rather die on the highways of Alabama than make a butchery of my conscience.'

"Nobody knows when, where, or if J. Edgar Hoover butchered his conscience. That was not the kind of question the director cared to answer."

So as long as I stay off the interstates I'm good?

"So as long as I stay off the interstates I'm good?"

Just don't engage in oral sex while crossing state lines.