The Last Tyranny Of Man

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.