The Last Tyranny Of Man

Oddly, the many failures of our drug policy protect it. The simple reason is that failure does not make the policy wrong. The myriad problems that flow directly from these laws protect the Achilles heel. Problems do not make the policy wrong any more than failure. The horrendous implementation of our drug policy blinds us. Our so-called drug war is unauthorized. That makes it wrong. That is the only thing that really matters.

Having no authority to outlaw personal choice, our legislature and judiciary have turned to the indirect but equally unauthorized control of substances presumed dangerous to the public health. Control of ones body, mind, life, death, happiness, pleasure and pain does not involve the public and is beyond the purview of any but the unique individual concerned. Our leaders are pursuing a policy that presumes unbelievable, unacceptable and most importantly unauthorized power.

The liberty defined by the Declaration of Independence in 1776 inspired revolutionary patriots a decade before the Constitution was written to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. Suggesting the liberty defined in the Declaration of Independence is different from the liberty mandated by the Constitution denies self-evident truths and the unalienable rights ordained by our creator. Our Constitution does not redefine the liberty for which our forefathers fought, bled and died. To the contrary, our Constitution defines a government, which must secure that liberty. The Declaration of Independence defines the liberty of all men. It has never been amended or canceled.

Egregious lying on a biblical scale, galactic ignorance, bad science, contempt for man, fear of freedom and evil intent are all distractions. They are moot. We must ignore drug war failures and all the problems caused. Issues of implementation are irrelevant.

The lack of authority is the overwhelming and undeniable terminal fallacy of prohibitions. The violation of personal liberty is unauthorized to any or all in this nation. That is all that matters. It is all we need to restore personal liberty.

Rick Wolfe

To say that drugs wreck lives is preposterous yet most would agree emphatically. Anthropomorphizing this inanimate object denies human control of self at the same time that it takes it. Most Americans trust their government. Drugs are bad. Drugs harm society. Drugs are a human scourge. By not saying exactly how drugs are dangerous, prohibitionist do not have to justify ‘dangerous substances’ that are not and false presumptions that are obvious. These lies are left for us to assume to be metaphor for rhetorical effect.

Why do they do this? Why does everyone speak of drugs as though they effect ingestion and behavior? Obviously, neither is true. The reasons these words are never spoken are twofold. Firstly, nobody likes to appear to be stupid. “The Kings New Cloths” are real everyone seems to insist. Secondly referring to the real object of drug law would be so obviously beyond government purview. This leaves we the people to assume what they cannot. So we speak of the ‘drug problem’ as though control of the most personal of human behavior was simply an unavoidable by product of a perfectly legitimate regulatory function controlling a ‘dangerous’ substance that is clearly not so, unless one again presumes a metaphor. Ignoring this sophistry in order to enable power never bestowed on this government is national policy based on fear of freedom, stupidity, personal benefit and/or evil intent. Type 3 stupidity plays a major role, but that is another rant.

So why does everyone seem to believe that people are powerless over drugs. Because they are taught from an early age that drugs are bad and a thousand other ‘presumed’ metaphors for the unspoken human behavior that drugs ‘cause’. These ‘popular’ lies have introduced presumption into our legislature and our courts. These lies tell us we are powerless. Being powerless over a drug is so very attractive to all but Libertarians. The government gets control of everybody. The non-drug user thinks he is not affected. Family and friends can accept behavior by attributing it to the drug and anyone providing it to their otherwise innocent loved ones. The addict is thus manufactured with an excuse for harm and behavior that enable him to deflect and postpone the inevitable day that it must end.

The responsibility for personal choice is now transferred to others. The compulsive user gets to keep doing what is so pleasurable until others exercise control for them. Business booms from rehab centers to the justice industry. Illicit dollars flood offshore banking institutions. The rich get tax-free dollars and the poor slobs who believe the big lies are jailed actually believing they did something wrong. The public thinks they are building a better society. No one objects their lose of personal liberty because they have been ‘taught’ to fear it. The consumer’s power in a free market is now in the hands of people who are criminals by definition and uncontrollable by any lucid view of reality. This market is relegated by law to the most vicious and violent people in any society, bestowing unimaginable wealth and power. Those selling on the street are victims of a policy that creates a temptation more powerful than any drug, lots of easy money.

If personal behavior that does not infringe on the safety or equal liberty of others is not one of our guaranteed unalienable rights, then what is?

Rick Wolfe

Drug laws exist ostensibly because drugs are dangerous. Being dangerous makes them subject to government regulation. This Constitutional mandate calls for the protection of we the people. It almost sounds plausible but for the obvious fact that drugs are totally harmless. Why do drug law supporters lavish us with metaphor when absolute clarity is critical? The ‘drug war’ itself is such a metaphor. Slavery is not so much removed from having had control of your person seized to protect you from something harmless or worse yet yourself.

Drug law supporters speak ambiguously for the same reason all liars do. They speak in metaphor because they must lead us to presume that which they cannot. Specifically I refer to our right and ability to control personal and private choice. These matters are clearly beyond government purview.

The absolute control of everyone, we are left to presume, is just a fortunate by-product in the defense of we the people from it the drug. How transparent do the lies need to be before someone points out that the king is naked?

The obvious manipulation of dangerous drugs is a deceit to acquire incredible power. With this power our society has been stripped of the fundamental liberty guaranteed to it. Fear lavished by all parties on a naive and trusting public was sufficient for those who believe their leaders without reason or, in my opinion, common sense. Maybe those in power now think they are helping.

Actually the foolish use of the peoples power has brought about more harm than drug warriors could have believed. Our society has lost more than personal liberty. The people have been subjected to egregious lying on a biblical scale. They have learned that freedom will destroy us because drugs control people. This big lie has many believing that which is not so. It has created the disease of addiction with protracted stupidity . Many will have to be empowered to overcome the big lie by virtually all our leaders for all of our lives. Protracted stupidity is very serious. >.

Prohibitionist have foisted a parental paradigm on everyone with a level of control never imagined much less authorized anywhere, anyway. That is why they do not refer directly to the purpose of their legislation. They have tricked the American people using all three kinds of stupidity, lies, prejudice, presumption and bad science. Their support is therefore great, but they are fundamentally wrong. When good people understand the truth liberty will no longer be only for the majority. You cannot vote on freedoms in the USA. The two most fundamentally defining qualities for which this country stands are freedom and equality for all. These values are the right and the reason for the creation and continuing existence of this country. Freedom must not yield to popularity. Popularity must not yield to tyranny.

I am not making a pithy point here. Brace yourself for simple. Every citizen’s personal liberty extends to the equal liberty others. We can vote and promote the manner of regulation of common things. Your life, death, happiness, pain and pleasure are personal. No one has the right or ability to control these things that are unique to you. There is no justification or authorization for the outrageous personal invasions of the drug war. We must bring an end to law that uses legal and legislative slight of hand to assume authority that remains now and forever with we the people.

Rick Wolfe