In This Country
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 The 18th amendment was illegal, but that is not why it was repealed.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 It is most certainly not freedom and clearly illegal, in this country, just like the popular Prohibition that was repealed.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