The Last Tyranny Of Man

If someone seems to be ‘under the influence’ while driving, then there is no need to ask or test. It does not matter. An inability to drive safely is unacceptable for any reason. It endangers others. If you drive dangerously or illegally then you should be removed from the road to protect others rights to safety. Not being ‘drunk’ does not matter either. Behavior trumps urine every time. Leave causality to the scientist. Conversely, while driving safely within the law, there is no need or right to detain.

Not wanting to quite doing something that you love is not a disease, it is a choice. Most of us know it is in the nature of all pleasure to be less with more. Conversely, less of a pleasure improves the enjoyment. This obvious fact leads most people to moderate things to produce the best results. It is natural to moderate if you are not driven to compulsive behavior with a ‘drug’ war or self loathing (a major drug war product).

Suggesting that anything we do is not a choice causes the so-called “disease” of addiction. This lie infests the mind with doubt of self. It creates that which it defines. For a person without a sense of personal control, this lie through the power of suggestion creates the acceptance of powerlessness that is addiction. Thus we create that which destroys us, fear of self.

Some tolerate prohibitions because they feel that they may not be able to control the criminalized substance or behavior if it were legal. They foolishly welcome the governments ‘help’ foolishly ignoring the harm. Some fear the ability of others to control their appetites. Most, I think, fear everyone’s behavior and see government as mother and father. They seem to believe that adults are children to be protected by those responsible for our behavior. These adults unfortunately would not be we the people.

This is fear of freedom, everybody’s. The choices we make define us as individuals. These choices drive the behavior that defines us as individuals. Judging people by anything but these choices is inhuman. It denies our individuality and, arguably, the meaning of life. Reducing human character and behavior to chemical analysis reduces us all to something unworthy of freedom.

Rick Wolfe
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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

Everyone knows there is more than one kind of stupidity. There are three to be exact. I call them type 1, type 2, and type 3. Type 1 is that with which we are all born or simply things we do not know. We start with all of it and die with a lot left in most cases. Type 2 is when we know something that is not so. It can be cured with a well-placed bet then a sound line of logic. Type two is much worse than type 1 but it can be overcome. Type 3 is a special form of type 2; it is the most destructive and hardest from which to recover. Type 3 stupidity is when many or even all people know something that is not so and they have known it for a very long time. I call it protracted stupidity.

The flat earthers are the most famous example of protracted stupidity. Their ‘knowledge’ was so absolute that harm could and did come to doubters. This certainty seems so obvious to us now, but for almost all of mans history we could not conceive of a round earth or even one not orbited by the sun. The sun was flat also in their minds I guess. The tallest mountain becoming short as one departed was ignored in order to support their belief. Everything disappearing in the distance would have jolted man to reason had he not been in the throws of type 3 stupidity.

But last week the drug warriors passed the flat earther’s historical record. There where no ceremonies. The flat earthers are almost all dead and the drug warriors scurried like cockroaches when the lights came on.

The drug warriors know that drugs are dangerous even though, being inanimate, this is clearly not so. They also know that drugs replace a lifetime of character and personality development. Ignoring the vast majority of evidence to the contrary is their disappearing mountain.

The drug warrior accomplishment is especially impressive if you consider the relative length of the competitor’s efforts. Everyone knows that the world is round now. But for virtually all of man’s history until about 400 years ago everyone knew that the world was flat. Yet the drug warriors have just arrived on the scene a little over 100 years ago. How did they equal and surpass such an impressive effort in a relative blink of an eye? The level of certainty is the same for both groups, but the numbers tell the story.

Stupidity compounds itself. Two people can be more than twice as stupid as one. With one there can be doubt. But many idiots in conclave are certain of everything. This was true of the flat earthers, but they where numbered in the thousands or even millions. The drug warriors number in the billions! So I did the math. It is true. Drug warriors are now in the lead and pulling away fast.

To calculate protracted stupidity you must multiply the number of stupid people by the numbers of years they are stupid. So 3 million people stupid for 30,000 years is 300 million PSU (protracted stupidity units). This is based on the average number of flat earthers throughout history. I disregard the 400 years of enlightenment since it is such a small part of the total. There are 3 billion people alive who still think that the drug war is smart. Plus 500 million who thought it was smart before they died. They lived for an average of 65 years despite not being particularly bright. Incidentally 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. So 500M times 65 plus 1 billion times 50 (average age of idiots today) is such a big number that my calculator can’t handle it. Suffice to say that the drug warriors are making the flat earthers look smart.

Rick Wolfe

Oil and water do not mix. So it is with our conflicted foreign policy. It is counterproductive for the USA to export prohibition and freedom at the same time. Thus we are at once the confused proponents of freedom and fear of freedom. Until the USA deals with this dichotomy, we will continue to lead the world in two directions. One need only look at Columbia to see where Afghanistan will go.

Let’s get rid of the hypocrisy in our foreign policy. We are all but attacking nations that attempt to develop nuclear weapons, yet we possess them in abundance.

Insistence from the USA to not develop these weapons is at best hypocritical and at most dictatorial. Let us unilaterally disarm all our nuclear weapons by way of leading the world instead of pushing it.

Even in the event of an all out nuclear strike, I cannot imagine destroying the rest of humanity as a spiteful dieing act. Our conventional military capability is threatening enough. Doomsday scenarios are necessary only in a world gone MAD. If we are MAD, then all the more reason to be nuke free.

Rick Wolfe

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

Our myopic society is the result of the so-called social ‘sciences’ virtually pissing in their beakers with every observation. The measured doing the measuring, I don’t think so.

To add to the mess we have mass communication for instantaneous observation reporting…fair and balanced.

By this time everyone with an education or a TV is a social scientist. They can also tell you what your problem is personally thanks to the psychology 101 coarse they took before dropping out of college.

Now these idiots (all of them!) go running to the polls to vote on the society they want to build. Thus, in this Mass stupidity, freedom transubstantiates, changing in one social brush stroke from unalienable rights to popular opinion.

If you are sitting in a big house in the suburbs, this might seem like a bright new way. But if you are sitting in a cell or if you are sitting in a one room flat with a locater bracelet around your ankle or if your character in the view of society is no more than a beaker of warm urine, then it is a bit darker.

Protecting people is the highest calling. Liberty being a personal thing, protecting society is a euphemism for tyranny. Limit your government to the regulation of shared resources before it is too late.

Rick Wolfe