The Last Tyranny Of Man

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