The Last Tyranny Of Man

Cause and effect explains everything. We think we know what causes a lot of things. So we simply outlaw the cause and the effect will be avoided. This is a common approach to legislation in this country. The indirection has the effect of manufacturing criminals. Just because we think we know the cause does not justify ignoring the effect or lack thereof. As a matter of fact, it would be better if we ignore the cause. It is the effect with which we must deal. Sure crime prevention makes good sense but not at the cost of any freedom. This is especially true when causality has not been established.

The regularity with which cause and effect are reversed is depressing. People with an agenda or a reality problem tend to do this a lot. A correlation does not define causality. The most frequent example of this is in drug law. People misbehaving are found to have taken a drug. They see the correlation and presume that the drug caused the behavior. Since drugs of any type cannot effect ingestion, the causal relationship is clearly flawed. That plus the basic premise is ridiculous. There are no drugs that replace a lifetime of character and personality development. People who are bad do bad things. Good people behave themselves. Taking an illegal drug does not make a good person or a bad person bad, assumptions to the contrary notwithstanding.

What is the problem with our legislature? Why are they making so many laws to deal with behavior presumed to cause an unacceptable effect? If they don’t make law, they don’t get airtime. They could lose an election if they don’t stay in the public eye. The most successful of our legislators pick controversial law, which is safe with their constituency; at least the ones that vote. With their eye on the peak of the bell shaped curve they plan their new law for maximum exposure and minimum political risk. At every tragedy they wale their sorrow while writing new draconian laws that fail to consider enforcement and that only get witnesses killed to avoid outrageous minimum sentencing. They trot from one political opportunity to another, depositing their contribution to society with each new law. They think they are rinsing societies ills away. Actually they are manufacturing crime. Our Legislature has caused more human suffering than all wars. The effect on this nation is devastating.

With neither cause nor effect having been established, the Supreme Court and the Executive stand still as though the Legislature has the right to do anything if it passes a vote first. Fundamental principles created this country and are not up to a vote unless we allow it, and we have. This is because fear of freedom has infected the government and voters. We trust those who tell us that forbidden things such as drugs, sex, gambling are dangerous and can do us harm. Sure, anything can be harmful if overdone. We are simply talking about appetites. Declaring them illegal, besides being stupid, is itself illegal. Pointing out the problems these laws cause distracts us from the real point.

Prohibitions invade the home, mind, and body. When did our bodies become a shared resource subject to government regulation? These laws violate any reasoned concept of liberty. Losing this war would be so much better than winning. If we loose this war we win our freedom and put our government to the real work.

Before surrendering to freedom we would have to tell everyone that they really can control their appetites and will be expected to control their behavior also. The big lie must be undone before people will realize they have the power to control anything they say or do. Empowerment instead of enslavement will save us all. We made the biggest mistake you can make in a democracy. We voted on freedom. We must limit our government to the administration of shared resources. Freedom requires that we control our private lives as well as our government.

Rick Wolfe

Our Government has been willing to let people die rather than ’send the wrong message’. Clean needles provided cheaply and easily would clearly save lives and money. Attempts to save these lives and reduce the medical expenses drastically have been denied for years ostensibly for this comparatively frivolous reason. The certain deaths that have resulted are the cost of what I suppose they would call ‘the right message’. We are willing to let you die because you are not the way we want you to be.

As if this were not bad enough our country’s drug law sends the most destructive and the most false message possible. The message is “you cannot control your appetites without laws preventing personal choices”. Why else would there be laws intended to prevent personal consumption of anything? This very ugly idea is breathed life because of the trust most Americans have for their government. It is simply a betrayal of trust, even when well intentioned. Every time you separate man from his behavior you strip him of his dignity, his identity, and his freedom.

The regulations involving drug laws speak of ‘public safety’ as though the drugs being criminalized were being used to build unsafe roads. They allude to impure or improperly prepared drugs as the need for their action, but the criminal law that rest on this lie is clearly a war on people. These laws to regulate inanimate, non-virulent and non-explosive objects have led to more suffering than all the wars in history. “Public safety” has not even been defined legally, much less shown to be at risk.

Criminal drug law is killing our children. They get the message, and feel its point. They do not trust their elders. They fear them. They see through the thinly veiled sophistry of prohibition. The overt and brutal manipulation of a free society must stop. This hideous contempt for man and his freedom is a clear message to our children. It must stop.

Rick Wolfe

The medical marijuana or marijuana debates simply specify a level of rationality. Just how smart should we be as a society is closer to the real issue. Conversely, just how stupid will the law allow. If you are missing my point then join the vast majority of Americans engaged in these debates. The presumption that you or your government has the right to tell anyone, anywhere that they cannot ingest, inject, inhale or otherwise use any substance for any reason they see fit, is absurd. To justify such prohibitions citing public safety is valid for antibiotics or virulent or explosive substances, but what is the reasoning behind a marijuana prohibition? Equateing things that are not equal is foolish. Marajuana is not an automatic weapon.

Even after the repeal of Prohibition a wound festers in the American psyche. The belief that substances hold reign over the human mind and spirit persist to this day. The battle for Prohibition was permeated with this insidious concept. Our government did not retract the concept behind Prohibition. Only the law was retracted. Having salvaged this falsehood from what was supposed to have been a defunct policy, legislators proceeded to perpetrate many more prohibitions on this society. To foist this Stepford society on a free people, whose personal liberty is self-evidently unalienable, is a crime not a law.

Yet we tolerate this most outrageous presumption like a cow on the way to dinner. To argue that our government needs to intrude so egregiously in personal matters belittles the real issue. Personal liberty is not up for a vote in this country. Is it not self-evident? Your government is not supposed to be controlling behavior; they are supposed to be protecting you and your rights. The contrived evolution of our society is not only beyond government purview; it is a direct assault on personal liberty. Exporting our prohibitions is a worldwide attack on personal liberty.

Allowing sick people access to a drug will some day be known for the arrogant condescension that it is. In that day police will restrain those who would block anyone’s access to drugs, not because people, police or drugs are inherently good, but because We The People are inherently free.

Rick Wolfe

Hate and fear come together to form the most noxious social concoctions, prohibitions. Those who believe that Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde are real share an affliction with the fictional character. In their case a lie serves the same purpose and produces the same effect. Such a simple idea really, a good man takes a drug and becomes a bad man. While good fiction it is bad fact. There is no support in science that would suggest such a thing. A drug can easily kill you, but to assume a drug can make a good boy steal money from his mother’s purse, is something only a loving but naive mother could believe.

So it was in the beginning when men broke under the strain of the frontier life, turning to ‘demon rum’ to dull their pain. The reversal of cause and effect was so easy. It served everyone’s interest. Prohibitionist played on this denial, enlisting support from both sides of the issue with one lie. It’s not little Johnny’s problem; it’s the drug, sex, pornography or what ever. Mom and Dad get to keep admiring and loving their son and their son escapes responsibility and the annoying need to control his appetites at the same time. Separating man from his behavior only delays the reckoning that must follow.

Evils most defining quality is harm. Without harm, evil is just a strange perspective. So it would be with the drug-war, morality war, ET all. But his mythical perspective on the species has been breathed life with lies. It is now laying waist to our democracy, our society, and freedom itself.

These pseudo supporters while not themselves evil, operate at evils behest. They are deeply ensconced in what I call type three stupidity. Briefly that is a special type of stupidity that is the mixture of time, concurrence and the absolute certainty of something that is not so. Type two stupidity is not quit as bad and type one is that with which we arrived. The flat-earthers formerly held the title for type three or protracted stupidity.

If these drug warriors can set aside their certainty long enough to realize that there is no support in science or reason for their dim view of our species. Paradoxically, those suffering from ‘drug-addiction’, drug abuse or whatever, are just more victims of the lie. Believing in a lie, gives it life that it does not deserve. You are powerless only when you believe you are.

Reductio ad absurdum is a logical process and debating technique whereby equating a proposition logically with that which is clearly absurd disproves that proposition. So the rational behind the drug war could easily be shown to be analogous to laws against tall buildings and bridges. Such laws would be absurd, but could be created by the same process generating prohibitions. That someone would use an object or substance to do themselves harm is not surprising if that someone is filled with self-loathing. Blaming this state of mind on the building or bridge from which the poor soul chose to end his life, belittles the species while, of course, being absurd.

Prohibition is the last and sole purview of the tyrant in a free world. Stop the last tyranny of man. Vote against prohibitions and their supporters. Let’s loose the fear of the future, of man and his freedom. A contrived future based on bad science, social skills and fear is no future for man or his freedom.

Rick Wolfe

The willingness to compromise is a much-overrated virtue I think. When you are right it is a cop out, when you are wrong it is condescension and when you are neither you are off point. I suspect compromise was a construct of a tyrant to eek out an advantage where there was none. Either that or I’m just in a bad mood. What do you think?

Rick Wolfe

If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. This is trite but true regarding support for the United States’ drug war.

I believe most people eligible to vote in the last national election gave not one nit of thought to prohibition for a number of reasons. Support for the drug war seems to come from four major groups:

1. Too busy to get involved
2. The horse race mentality
3. The personality mentality
4. Actual supporters of Prohibition

(pull)The first category “Too busy to get involved” mostly do not vote.(/pull) The idealism of youth is a distant memory for this group. They are white and blue color workers focused intensely on taking care of their families and trying to make a better life. They are much more concerned with careers than freedom. This group does not have time for reflection. Any conversation about ideals or philosophy is just that, conversation. This group represents the brightest hope for change. They will not be a good source of money or activist, but getting them to the poles to vote for a change is doable.

The second group is “the horse race mentality”. They are interested in picking a winner only. These competitive types are always a democrat or a republican. They include a large part of the political and social spectrum. Their defining quality is that regardless of political conviction, they are compelled to vote for a democrat or a republican in order to have a chance of “winning”. Because prohibition is a plank in both party’s platforms, this group settles for no choice rather than “throw their vote away”. Paradoxically, most anti prohibitionists are in this group. They suffer the same affliction as compulsive gamblers. Maybe a hot tip at the right time could stampede them in the right direction on Election Day.

The third group is “The personality mentality”. These voters hold the strongest yet emptiest opinions. They see no shame in discussing a candidates dress or manner. Ideas are no match for a winning smile. This group invariable selects the younger and better looking candidate. Bill Clinton owns this group for life unless he runs against JFK. They rationalize any policy, including prohibition, associated with the best looking candidate. They are in a word shallow. A charismatic anti prohibitionist could get some votes here.

The fourth and last group is “Actual supporters of Prohibition”. This group is fully ensconced in the government propaganda. To them someone disrespecting a drug law is just an unruly child and must be disciplined for his or her own good. Unbelievably a five or ten year sentence is considered a “slap on the wrist” to these draconian parents. They are a waste of time. Their support for prohibition is petrified. Any government invasions into the lives of Americans is to these people just a warm loving intervention by a kind and caring paternal entity with limitless power. God and government are synonymous to these idiots. This groups most damning quality is that they are always in power.

Arguing with someone who would organize his or her neighbors to control your behavior in your home is a waste of time. They are like terrorist except you cannot shoot them. However, the first three groups may be subject to influence. Leaving information lying around hoping that they will read it and change is not working. The government and the mainstream media are in lock step support of prohibition. We must confront our fellow citizens in the work places, churches, clubs and schools. We must make even passive support for prohibition something that people come to see as politically incorrect. We must create a movement in these groups that does not now exist.

Rick Wolfe

“Being consistent with all things but perspective, the Truth is thus afflicted by its admirers.”

Rick Wolfe,
November 2006

“Loss of your personal liberty is almost always preceded by the loss of others personal liberty. Stand still while others are abused and you stand in line.”

Rick Wolfe

Our Go Fast Society

Did you ever wonder why our government seems to be more concerned with marijuana than with dangerous drugs? You would think it would be just the opposite if the government truly had our best interest at heart. Maybe there is some danger to marijuana that is unspoken, that would explain the strange emphasis.

To begin to answer this question, a series of lies by our government must be undone in order to allow for lucid thought. Firstly, marijuana is not some insidious plot on the part of black American jazz musicians. Secondly, marijuana does not produce rage or anything remotely resembling rage. Not surprising that a lie would fall exactly opposite of the truth. It happens all the time in the Drug War. Last year marijuana was pronounced to be the most addictive of all drugs. This is of course 180 out from the truth. Thirdly and most importantly, (pull)no one is powerless over any drug; therefore drugs cannot effect human behavior.(/pull) Their ability to affect human behavior is different. In other words drugs can kill you, but they cannot make you steal money from your mother’s purse. Now, have your government chant these truths to you for 50 years and you will be ready to answer the question at hand.
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Everyone knows there is more than one kind of stupidity. There are three to be exact. I call them type 1, type 2, and type 3. Type 1 is that with which we are all born or simply things we do not know. We start with all of it and die with a lot left in most cases. Type 2 is when we know something that is not so. It can be cured with a well-placed bet then a sound line of logic. Type two is much worse than type 1 but it can be overcome. Type 3 is a special form of type 2; it is the most destructive and hardest from which to recover. Type 3 stupidity is when many or even all people know something that is not so and they have known it for a very long time. I call it protracted stupidity.

The flat earthers are the most famous example of protracted stupidity. Their ‘knowledge’ was so absolute that harm could and did come to doubters. This certainty seems so obvious to us now, but for almost all of mans history we could not conceive of a round earth or even one not orbited by the sun. The sun was flat also in their minds I guess. The tallest mountain becoming short as one departed was ignored in order to support their belief. Everything disappearing in the distance would have jolted man to reason had he not been in the throws of type 3 stupidity.

But last week the drug warriors passed the flat earther’s historical record. There where no ceremonies. The flat earthers are almost all dead and the drug warriors scurried like cockroaches when the lights came on.

The drug warriors know that drugs are dangerous even though, being inanimate, this is clearly not so. They also know that drugs replace a lifetime of character and personality development. Ignoring the vast majority of evidence to the contrary is their disappearing mountain.

The drug warrior accomplishment is especially impressive if you consider the relative length of the competitor’s efforts. Everyone knows that the world is round now. But for virtually all of man’s history until about 400 years ago everyone knew that the world was flat. Yet the drug warriors have just arrived on the scene a little over 100 years ago. How did they equal and surpass such an impressive effort in a relative blink of an eye? The level of certainty is the same for both groups, but the numbers tell the story.

Stupidity compounds itself. Two people can be more than twice as stupid as one. With one there can be doubt. But many idiots in conclave are certain of everything. This was true of the flat earthers, but they where numbered in the thousands or even millions. The drug warriors number in the billions! So I did the math. It is true. Drug warriors are now in the lead and pulling away fast.

To calculate protracted stupidity you must multiply the number of stupid people by the numbers of years they are stupid. So 3 million people stupid for 30,000 years is 300 million PSU (protracted stupidity units). This is based on the average number of flat earthers throughout history. I disregard the 400 years of enlightenment since it is such a small part of the total. There are 3 billion people alive who still think that the drug war is smart. Plus 500 million who thought it was smart before they died. They lived for an average of 65 years despite not being particularly bright. Incidentally 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. So 500M times 65 plus 1 billion times 50 (average age of idiots today) is such a big number that my calculator can’t handle it. Suffice to say that the drug warriors are making the flat earthers look smart.

Rick Wolfe

Oil and water do not mix. So it is with our conflicted foreign policy. It is counterproductive for the USA to export prohibition and freedom at the same time. Thus we are at once the confused proponents of freedom and fear of freedom. Until the USA deals with this dichotomy, we will continue to lead the world in two directions. One need only look at Columbia to see where Afghanistan will go.

Let’s get rid of the hypocrisy in our foreign policy. We are all but attacking nations that attempt to develop nuclear weapons, yet we possess them in abundance.

Insistence from the USA to not develop these weapons is at best hypocritical and at most dictatorial. Let us unilaterally disarm all our nuclear weapons by way of leading the world instead of pushing it.

Even in the event of an all out nuclear strike, I cannot imagine destroying the rest of humanity as a spiteful dieing act. Our conventional military capability is threatening enough. Doomsday scenarios are necessary only in a world gone MAD. If we are MAD, then all the more reason to be nuke free.

Rick Wolfe

The steady stream of outrages emanating from our invasive government leads me to wonder what limitations, if any, my fellow citizens would place on our government. Currently government dictates include personal relationships, brain chemistry, medical care, roads, airway, waterways, life and death. Three of these are clear and obvious mandates; the others are even more clearly not something our founding fathers considered within the government purview.

Yet Americans of today think nothing of dictating highly personal and private matters with laws, guns and punishment. These tyrants see no difference between voting for their political representatives and voting for personal freedoms. The superstitious mind is a tortured thing, but believing that a majority vote always indicates the correct action, defies reason. Surely they don’t think that we can vote on everything. There must be some unalienable rights beyond the reach of these idiots and their congressional representatives.

Short answer; there are. Personal liberties of all manner and scope are sacrosanct in this country because of some very clear wording and some very simple ideas. Unalienable means you cannot vote on it. Self evident means that you don’t have to argue or fight for it. Endowed by your creator means that, short of a retraction directly from God, it is safe in this country. ‘Bestow the blessings of’ does not mean take away.

How can the judiciary stand idly by, while human freedom is laid waist by clearly illegal behavior from a government operating in direct opposition to its’ founding documents. Only the Supreme Court can restore the equilibrium envisaged by our founding fathers. Its’ failure to steer political forces clear of human freedom has put this country far off mark. At this point America can no longer be considered a free nation.

A communist government opening up a stock market and encouraging workers to invest in their country seems like such a strange concept. Yet it is no more strange than a free nation dictating what one can do with their bodies with regards to their life and their death and their health and their happiness.

This stark discrepancy boggles my mind. How can we call ourselves free while voting on freedom itself? Have we the people forgotten what freedom is? Does democracy give us the right to vote against freedom? Have Americans confused freedom with a free ride?

Fear of the future does not give us the right to seek another in this country. Freedom is not a choice for us. It is the law of the land. We must see it through. If it fails, so be it. But don’t give it up until then. It’s the highest ideal yet in human social evolution. Have faith in that.

Man kind will flourish in a totally free society. How many spouses of what sexual polarity is clearly a personal matter. What medicine you take is not a public debate in a free society. Presuming harm from behavior like any presumption should have no place in a court of law, even if the legislature insist. Those who would separate man from his behavior reduce him. Those allowing this conduct deserve what they get.

Rick Wolfe

If someone sells you a car, they are a salesman. If they sell you a house, they are a realtor. Your food is delivered by a waitress. Why aren’t any of these people called pushers?

Why does Bill Oreilly setting in the middle of the “no spin zone” insist that every drug deal is a violent crime? Either Bill has been watching way too much TV or he is spinning like a whirling dervish.

It’s all part of the process to demonize drugs, those who sell drugs and those who buy them. This is necessary in order to make what we do to them palatable to a society that is otherwise disinclined to be cruel.

Like every war the drug war is no stranger to propaganda. Reds, gooks, japs, krouts and now pushers and users are dehumanized in preparation for their violation. We have steeled our minds against the horrible reality of what we are doing with ugly words for people who do not deserve what we do to them.

Rick Wolfe

We must take care not to confuse democracy with freedom. When our political representatives vote on our personal liberties it is democracy. But it is certainly not freedom. Voting on freedom makes it popularity. Popular politicians are one thing, but popular freedoms belie an understanding of freedom. The 18th amendment was illegal, but that is not why it was repealed. It was not popular enough with those in voting control. That is why we still have prohibitions.

Without an amendment from our Creator, freedom is not something on which one votes, in this country. It was and is self-evident that our rights are unalienable in this country. This was established by a document that has never been amended. The Declaration of Independence created this country and imbued each of us with personal liberty. The liberty in the Declaration is the same liberty referred to in the Constitution. The Constitution is not an amendment to the Declaration of Independence.

This is not a fine point to be overlooked easily. Voting on personal and private conduct, that does not endanger or harm others, is prohibition. It is an arbitrary and unnecessary abridgment of personal liberty. It is most certainly not freedom and clearly illegal, in this country, just like the popular Prohibition that was repealed.

There are far too many incarcerated and otherwise restrained by our government in this country. It is true that a lot of those incarcerated should be for the protection of people, but certainly not for the protection of our society directly. That sort of protection is a thinly veiled form of social engineering that ties us all to the common yoke of popular opinion. It is a disease of democracy spread by tyrants rendering the infected afraid of both truth and freedom. It is freedoms greatest struggle and liberty is losing while an infection grows in this country.

The regulation of shared resources and the restraint of one to protect another have nothing to do with prohibition. These are things our government should be doing instead of engineering a Stepford society based on popularity.

Both the minority and the majority come together to conceive of prohibitions. This is true because all but a few vote for prohibitionist. You might argue successfully that your tyrant is more good looking, smarter, charismatic or whatever rings your bell, than whoever will ‘win’ the election, if your tyrant does not. But what does that have to do with anything in this country.

All those responsible for the practice of prohibition practice a very pure and virulent form of treason knowingly or otherwise. Prohibitions are not the sole failure of voters or Legislators to protect our liberty. The Supreme Court, or the Executive of these United States should restrain elected officials practicing prohibition in this country, be they in the majority or the minority.

Rick Wolfe

“Unconditional love, faith and nationalism are the tyrant’s favorite confections. Dispassionate deliberation is our salvation. Reason trumps all other pretext for action or inaction.”

Rick Wolfe

What can drugs really make you do? Anything is the drug warriors’ knee jerk response. A more thoughtful person might ask what drug or how much or a hundred other relevant questions. A skeptic might argue that drugs alone have never been proven to produce human behavior. An aspirin might stop a headache so that one attends a party. Did the aspirin make you go to the party?

We’ve all seen the lab experiment with the rat opting for cocaine to death with a ready alternative of healthy food available all along. The fact that rodents are ubiquitous puts a lie to this myth at least in part. Yet we as a society legislate and conduct ourselves as though every citizen was just as powerless as that poor rat seems to be.

For those who see the human spirit as subservient to the power of drugs the world is a very scary place. This much fear can drive some very flawed thinking and strange behavior. The drug war is riddled with just such thinking and behavior for just this reason. They conduct themselves as though drugs were “Body Snatchers”. That’s one of the scariest movies yet. It was not until later that I saw the similarities to prohibition.

Everyone I know believes it is illicit drug dollars driving the behavior. This may be so with legislators, judges and police but it fails to explain the vast public support for the drug war. The average person supports the drug war but does not benefit from it in any way. Fear is all that can explain this many people being stupid for this long.

The history of prohibition is littered with egregious lying on a biblical scale. Over the years it has produced a state of petrified fear and stupidity that is impervious to facts. This state of mind is not unlike religious zeal. Through almost hallucinogenic logic large portions of this population see drugs animate and somehow effect ingestion on their own. And we the people are powerless to stop this thing that has come alive in our fear-riddled minds.

Rick Wolfe

Elitist thinking plays a major roll in the perpetuation of the failed drug war. The temporary escape of drugs from a life filled with difficulty, poverty, hate and self-loathing is truly intoxicating. For the desperately poor the money from drug sales is an equally intoxicating temptation.

For lives devoid of these miseries the problem is distant and hard to understand. The old expression “driven to drink” is just a colloquialism to most elitists. They are not tempted to risk all that they have with illegal drugs. To them it is nothing more than weakness. They see a difference between taking their prescribed Valium to cope with the stress in their lives and a homeless man smoking a joint under a bridge for the same reason.

Drug abuse is not choosing between lawfulness and criminality, it is choosing a fleeting alternative to despair over the relative slight possibility of punishment in a free society. No matter how draconian these punishments the abuse of drugs continues, as does human misery. Difficult lives become impossible, not because of drugs but because of the drug war.
The elitists see only laws, crime, and punishment. They do not see their position in life as superior they see themselves as superior. They then use their superior position with the government to visit even more misery on the miserable. If these elitists are truly superior then why can they not see how wrong they are?

Rick Wolfe

The fruit of the poisonous tree refers to a legal concept that requires evidence to be ignored if it is acquired illegally or without a proper warrant. In other words, if the means are tainted, the ends or fruits of those means must likewise be poisonous.

Since all prohibitions have been created in a caldron of lies, ignorance, deceit and racism, legislations thereby derived are the Fruit of The Poison Tree cubed. ‘Tainted’ would be a mild way of describing the environment under which these legislations were born. Everyone knows the farce perpetrated on the American people in the mid 30’s culminating with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Yet the laws emanating from this collusion are still ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.

If the means used to enforce a law must be free of the Fruit of the Poison Tree, should not the laws themselves be subject to the same reasoning. Clearly this is so, but it is not so. This is a frequent occurrence in the drug war where policy trumps reason. It is clear to me now that this government has no intention of justifying this policy with truth in the cold hard light of day. For seventy years the lies have gone undone. The falsehoods born in that period persist as petrified doctrine in the minds of Americans.

Therefore under the legal doctrine of The Fruit of the Poison Tree all prohibitions should be immediately repealed. The right of our government to practice prohibition should be challenged, be these prohibitions with or without popular vote. The Declaration of Independence clearly opposed the concept of prohibition when declaring our rights to be ‘unalienable’. This suggest quit clearly that a majority vote does not give our government the right to deny life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness to anyone without clear and compelling justification.

We see the Bill of Rights as the sole protector of the people, yet the Declaration of Independence is the foundation for the Constitution. It does not matter how you interpret the Bill Of Rights or the power of government under the Constitution, The Declaration of Independence created this country and imbued each of us with unalienable rights. We can vote for our representative, but neither they nor we have the legal right in this country to practice prohibition. The Declaration of Independence forbids prohibition as clearly as it could in a world then unfamiliar with this hideous concept.

Rick Wolfe

This is a classic debate demonstrating the problem of a poorly founded argument. A false premise debated brilliantly is still a lost cause. In this case you accept the existence of angels when you accept the argument.

In the case of the drug war we accept it as a legitimate function of our government. We accept the drug war itself and the legal right of the government to regulate our bodies. When we argue medical marijuana we inadvertently validate the faulty premises on which the drug war is based. We skip over the real issue and dive into an endless debate about the best way to do something we have neither the right nor ability to do.

When we demonstrate the folly of prohibition, we accept its existence at least tacitly. We should always refuse first to accept the drug war as a legitimate domestic policy. We do not have the right to wage war on the American people. It is a digression and a distraction to argue that this policy is stupid, counterproductive, and harmful or, as is usually the case with the drug war, all of the above. The drug war is much more than just a bad idea. It flies in the face of human freedom in direct opposition to everything for which the Bill of Rights stands.

Let us address the fundamental issue first. That is a government operating beyond a reasonable mandate. It is a people abusing a democracy. It is a people voting not just for their leaders, but also for a plethora of profound personal beliefs from the right to life to the right of death.

It is a fundamental distinction, to want something on one hand and to demand it at gunpoint on the other. Each of us has a view of how to deal best with our bodies and minds, but we must resist the urge to send some idiot to Washington charged with fulfilling our great plan for everybody. He has neither the right nor the ability to do so.

We must be responsible citizens, don’t encourage or support laws that require control of personal and private conduct. In doing so, we abuse our democracy; infect it with extraneous mandate. Even if we are right, it is wrong. We only manufacture criminals using our own self-righteous moral presumptions.

Mark your territory clearly and defend it well, but do not fence your neighbors. Speak your truth to all who will listen, but don’t foist it on your neighbors at gunpoint. Love your neighbors for what and who they are, not for what you want them to be. Accept your neighbors’ freedom, as you rejoice in your own. This is the best way to restore freedom lost and assure freedom to come. This will return our police to the neighborhood as protectors not controllers. It will reduce violence in our society and begin the long healing process that follows every war. We must attack the fundamental flaw or we are lost. So, forget about medical marijuana, escalating police state practices, or the like. Stick to the point. Your body is not a shared resource and is therefore not subject to government regulation. Bees and termites certainly benefit from this perspective, but insects are not trying to make a democracy work. Just as you and I must know our limitations, so also must we know the limitations of our government. The level of control required to effect a prohibition would make George Orwell’s “1984” seem like the “The Little Rascals”.

The government has no logical mandate to control a person’s body. The obvious mandate of a government in a free society is to regulate shared resources. Your body is certainly not one of these. The presumption that the government is charged with doing this is not supported in logic or the constitution.

Certainly government has the power to regulate a person’s body, just as thieves and thugs have the power to knock you down and take your money. But no one supports criminals. Why do so many support government efforts to do worse? It seems more reasonable to support thieves and thugs. At least we are not paying them to protect us. They only take our money and in the worst case our lives. The government would take our minds and our bodies from our control. So many people throughout our history have given their lives to protect our freedoms, so, why now do they give it up so easily? Is it because they are one hundred years into a debate based on a flawed premise?

It is not my intent to ignore the harm that drugs have done or will do. I simply want to remove drugs from the current venue, so that a more rational course of action may be taken.

Some small percentage of our population has and will abuse drugs to the detriment of their own bodies and/or minds. They do not do this to thwart the government or our personal belief systems. They are simply fighting despair in the only way they know how.

We can light the way for them but we cannot walk their path for them. We can win their hearts and minds, but we cannot take them. In a vane attempt to do so, we give up control of our own bodies and minds. We lose that which we can lose in no other way. This will truly be a reason for despair

Rick Wolfe

Our myopic society is the result of the so-called social ‘sciences’ virtually pissing in their beakers with every observation. The measured doing the measuring, I don’t think so.

To add to the mess we have mass communication for instantaneous observation reporting…fair and balanced.

By this time everyone with an education or a TV is a social scientist. They can also tell you what your problem is personally thanks to the psychology 101 coarse they took before dropping out of college.

Now these idiots (all of them!) go running to the polls to vote on the society they want to build. Thus, in this Mass stupidity, freedom transubstantiates, changing in one social brush stroke from unalienable rights to popular opinion.

If you are sitting in a big house in the suburbs, this might seem like a bright new way. But if you are sitting in a cell or if you are sitting in a one room flat with a locater bracelet around your ankle or if your character in the view of society is no more than a beaker of warm urine, then it is a bit darker.

Protecting people is the highest calling. Liberty being a personal thing, protecting society is a euphemism for tyranny. Limit your government to the regulation of shared resources before it is too late.

Rick Wolfe

It is strange to me that religion stands so still while prohibitionist attempt to interrupt God’s great experiment. Is not the struggle with good and evil mans reason for existence in the religious mind? If this is so, controlling mans choices corrupts the result. How is God supposed to know if a man is worthy of heaven or hell if those pesky prohibitionists keep pissing in His beaker, so to speak?

For that matter, what about Santa Clause? If you lock little Johnny up in a closet all year, he only seems like a ‘nice’ boy. It could turn him into a psychopath. So tell me, does little Johnny the psychopath get a gift and go to heaven?

Rick Wolfe

Everyone seems to have this backwards. Faith is a belief without a reason, not a reason for a belief. This is a bad thing. Right?

Rick Wolfe

Having been told for years that they are powerless over drugs many Americans have come to believe it. At that point and not a second before they became powerless. The much vaunted ‘power of positive thinking’ has a dark corollary, the power of fear. While neither effect reality, our suggestibility gives them power beyond all reason because simple easy answers are like candy to the human brain.

The government is the biggest proponent of the ‘powerless’ proposition because it gives them great power. The instant drugs were imbued with the power to dictate human behavior, humans became something less. Prohibitionist in league with the 4th estate then swooped in on a wave of legislation feeding like sharks on our unalienable rights. The power vacuum created by the wide spread acceptance of the ‘powerless’ theory was and is enormous.

With images of rats opting for cocaine to death over good nutrition, the prohibitionist convinced everyone that this was their fate without them. If society was to be saved from this new powerful enemy it must be protected. A policy that would incarcerate tens of millions of Americans was born.

We are destroying freedom at a prodigious rate based on nothing more than a deflated opinion of the species.

Rick Wolfe

Laws themselves are constrained in reason just and justly as the enforcement of those laws. If you cannot use poison to enforce a law then it is self-evident that you cannot use it to make the law.

Protecting people is the highest calling of man. Protecting society is a euphemism for tyranny.

The good news is that our government is not plotting to steal our freedom. The bad news is that the loss of our freedom is a fully automatic process. It runs on pure stupidity and there seems to be no shortage of fuel in sight. You can think of it as oaficial policy.

Enters the least of our species starting this natural process. He does something horrendous and then blames his behavior on ‘anything else but him’ in a desperate attempt to deflect consequences. The government, in a monumental act of stupidity, takes this idiot seriously and attempts to eliminate ‘anything else but him’. Some examples of ‘anything else but hims’ are drugs, pornography, gambling, TV, the Internet, nudity, art, mp3 headphones, rock and roll and other people to mention but a few.

Each of these ‘anything else but hims’ becomes stained by his cretinous behaviors through the esoteric logic of the drug warrior. The bottom line is that our personal liberties are being eliminated as though each of us will do something ‘horrendous’ compelled by ‘anything else but him’ if given the chance. In the thirties, murder was blamed on the rage murderers felt after smoking marijuana.

If we as Americans do not come to see our rights as more substantial than that which is being slung at them, freedom will dissolve like the will that created it. We must rail at any abridgement of rights without clear and compelling necessity. Legislators can no longer be allowed to express moral indignation with law. Representatives attempting to create law based on unsubstantiated causal relationships should not be allowed to finish their terms of office.

But most importantly, never vote for a prohibitionist. Only lemmings could understand this phenomenon. Why do we vote for someone who thinks its fine to arrest citizens who have neither endangered nor harmed anyone? Putting someone behind bars with no justification reveals a contempt for law and liberty that is itself contemptible.

What is the truth about second hand smoke? What is the truth about marijuana? What is the truth about crack babies? The answer in every case is it just doesn’t matter. People need to be protected from the truth just as they are protected from drugs otherwise they could draw the wrong conclusions and make bad decisions. So a lie for a good cause is a good thing. At least this might appear to be government policy. The most alarming aspect of this policy is the public tolerance for lies and their naiveté about the reasons governments lie.

One can easily conclude that this tolerance for prevarication comes from a liked minded citizenry. So it is to you that I speak. Lashing out at our government for telling ‘your lies’ is fruitless. When you vote for someone who supports policies based on lies, you support the lies. You are responsible for the results. Simply blaming the liar denies the truth.

Did you think the right to vote did not come with an awesome responsibility? Right and wrong is not like wallpaper. These choices are not simply a matter of opinion, nor are they horse races or popularity contests. If we as voting Americans don’t rise to the occasion, freedom will go the way of truth.

If you think this article is about a republican or a democrat you are mistaken. Both major political parties are stained by millions of lies. Both support policies known by the American people to be based on lies. Guess again. No luck, here is a hint. If you think prohibition is smart then keep voting for prohibitionist, stupid.

The emergence of the scientific method has skyrocketed technological growth. Where once mans imagination roamed free to conjure any conclusion, it was now constrained to reason and repeatability. Since this evolutionary development mankind has risen from the dark superstitious Cro-Magnons to the enlightened beings we imagine ourselves to be today.

Information, communication and transportation revolutions have transformed the world. Even the justice system has experienced a surge of improvement with CSI investigators gathering the inevitable microscopic evidence to convict only the guilty with absolute certainty.

But the old days call us back with the issue of drugs . Science is now anathema. Any discussion or study, which does not support the policy, is ignored. In the place of reasoned discourse we have political planks.

Producing more human suffering than any war in history, prohibition persists blindly in the face of all reason as failures solitary survivor. The undying support for this failed policy is clearly popular, but why?

Supporters seem to continue their support as every reason for support is disproved. No matter how many lies, no matter how many otherwise laughable assertions revealed for what they are, support continues unabated as if no harm could be worse than man left to deal personally with his personal appitites.

This sociological anachronism defies all logic. Persueing prohibition is a compulsion with no rational explanation. Science in its solitary failure is unable to shed light in the dark corners from which drug war reasoning arises.

Rick Wolfe

It is 72 years today (12/05/1933-2005) since our society last yelped in defiance of the tyrant. Prohibitions free reign, like some unbridled apocalyptic horse, plunders our freedom to this day. The concept that man is something less has passed muster with the American society as a whole. Throughout the world with particular zeal in more oppressive regimes prohibition is pursued as social savior.

Now we send young men to kill and to die for something that is marred in our minds. The people they kill need it badly and our brave men pay the highest price willingly, so the fact that freedom has been redefined into some Orwellian new speak does not mare their life’s blood. Prohibitionists do love their flags.

For a host of reasons, all of which are inherently false, man has been separated from his behavior and left bare of his dignity and freedom. Drugs have transubstantiated. In the primitive part of the American psyche cause and effect blurred and when the image cleared drugs were making the decisions. Mr. Hyde was in charge; Dr. Jekyll was simply along for the ride. Americans do love their fiction.

Rick Wolfe