Dangerous Drugs?
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
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