The Last Tyranny Of Man

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· All drug policy sites deal in issues that distract from the only thing that really matters. Drug war problems and harms do not matter. It does not matter how best to do that which is not allowed. Other sites distract us with non sequitur. “The King is naked.”

· No other site points out that the legislature is equally bound by The Fruit of the poisonous Tree when laws exceed authority or arise from untruths or presumption.

· No other site establishes sound reason to deny government authority to pursue any prohibition. Liberty created democracy. Liberty does not come from democracy. Liberty exists above the Constitution, the people, their favorites and the government.

· No other site denies the power of drugs to change ones values and character. Drugs do not make good people or bad people bad. Drugs alone rarely explain and never justify behavior. The ubiquitous causal presumptions separate us from our behavior and are absolutely unnecessary. Our behavior defines us. Leave causality to science.

· No other site sees drug control over people as the lie that makes it easy to continue use while deflecting consequence and responsibility. Most drug use problems (I believe) result from the easy acceptance this evil, self-supporting lie. Every drug use is a choice. Drugs are not dangerous. They cannot control behavior. Behavior is choice. A million lies do not make it so. Cherry picked data and wild presumption does not make this lie true.

Give these ideas a second thought. They conflict with many lies and beliefs. Just consider the possibilities. It’s a way to end the last tyranny of man.

I believe every word of this to be true. I believe the truth exists apart from my perceptions. So, I might be wrong. I want to be right and will be grateful for corrections, comments or things I just do not know. Please limit the last to the subject matter…lots I do not know.

I am very interested in your views, so comment. Only the loser wins anything in an argument.

It just seems impossible until the issues are clearly stated. The synergy of reality clears the mind. A way out may come into view.

Rick Wolfe

The thoughtless sanctification of the US Constitution and the democracy therein defined has elevated popular opinion above the values that created and defined this nation. A reverence beyond reason has bestowed power and authority that equals any tyrants in history.

This tyranny of majority justifies itself with weak or non-existent reason. Truth is also declared and defined without justification. Majority values are routinely foisted on those with different values. Equality of our liberty is bastardized becoming equality of individuals. Behavior or substances are given dominion over our minds and bodies with an obvious contempt for the entire species.

A ubiquitous message of danger to societal well being and popular values is used as justification to illegally control personal behavior unique to the individual. All major political parties accept this power as arrogantly as nobility accepted divine right. No viable political alternative to this treason exists because of a life long ‘education’ that ignores personal liberty, individuality, and limits to government authority.

Liberty created and defined this country a decade before there was a constitution. Liberty is the law of this land. Liberty existed before and it exists above this government, its people and even their favorites. This should not have to be said because it is self-evident. The Declaration of Independence establishes this ‘truth’. It is the Founding document of the USA, NOT the Constitution. It has never been amended or replaced.

The Constitution was created to defend our Liberty, not to define it. The stirring words defining the right and reason for this nation are unequaled and unequivocal. Our vote comes from Liberty. Liberty does not come from the vote. Let’s let our neighbor believe and behave as he sees fit. His rights are equal, not his values and beliefs. That is the real law.

Rick Wolfe

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

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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Cause and effect explains everything. We think we know what causes a lot of things. So we simply outlaw the cause and the effect will be avoided. This is a common approach to legislation in this country. The indirection has the effect of manufacturing criminals. Just because we think we know the cause does not justify ignoring the effect or lack thereof. As a matter of fact, it would be better if we ignore the cause. It is the effect with which we must deal. Sure crime prevention makes good sense but not at the cost of any freedom. This is especially true when causality has not been established.

The regularity with which cause and effect are reversed is depressing. People with an agenda or a reality problem tend to do this a lot. A correlation does not define causality. The most frequent example of this is in drug law. People misbehaving are found to have taken a drug. They see the correlation and presume that the drug caused the behavior. Since drugs of any type cannot effect ingestion, the causal relationship is clearly flawed. That plus the basic premise is ridiculous. There are no drugs that replace a lifetime of character and personality development. People who are bad do bad things. Good people behave themselves. Taking an illegal drug does not make a good person or a bad person bad, assumptions to the contrary notwithstanding.

What is the problem with our legislature? Why are they making so many laws to deal with behavior presumed to cause an unacceptable effect? If they don’t make law, they don’t get airtime. They could lose an election if they don’t stay in the public eye. The most successful of our legislators pick controversial law, which is safe with their constituency; at least the ones that vote. With their eye on the peak of the bell shaped curve they plan their new law for maximum exposure and minimum political risk. At every tragedy they wale their sorrow while writing new draconian laws that fail to consider enforcement and that only get witnesses killed to avoid outrageous minimum sentencing. They trot from one political opportunity to another, depositing their contribution to society with each new law. They think they are rinsing societies ills away. Actually they are manufacturing crime. Our Legislature has caused more human suffering than all wars. The effect on this nation is devastating.

With neither cause nor effect having been established, the Supreme Court and the Executive stand still as though the Legislature has the right to do anything if it passes a vote first. Fundamental principles created this country and are not up to a vote unless we allow it, and we have. This is because fear of freedom has infected the government and voters. We trust those who tell us that forbidden things such as drugs, sex, gambling are dangerous and can do us harm. Sure, anything can be harmful if overdone. We are simply talking about appetites. Declaring them illegal, besides being stupid, is itself illegal. Pointing out the problems these laws cause distracts us from the real point.

Prohibitions invade the home, mind, and body. When did our bodies become a shared resource subject to government regulation? These laws violate any reasoned concept of liberty. Losing this war would be so much better than winning. If we loose this war we win our freedom and put our government to the real work.

Before surrendering to freedom we would have to tell everyone that they really can control their appetites and will be expected to control their behavior also. The big lie must be undone before people will realize they have the power to control anything they say or do. Empowerment instead of enslavement will save us all. We made the biggest mistake you can make in a democracy. We voted on freedom. We must limit our government to the administration of shared resources. Freedom requires that we control our private lives as well as our government.

Rick Wolfe

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

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

“Unconditional love, faith and nationalism are the tyrant’s favorite confections. Dispassionate deliberation is our salvation. Reason trumps all other pretext for action or inaction.”

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

It is strange to me that religion stands so still while prohibitionist attempt to interrupt God’s great experiment. Is not the struggle with good and evil mans reason for existence in the religious mind? If this is so, controlling mans choices corrupts the result. How is God supposed to know if a man is worthy of heaven or hell if those pesky prohibitionists keep pissing in His beaker, so to speak?

For that matter, what about Santa Clause? If you lock little Johnny up in a closet all year, he only seems like a ‘nice’ boy. It could turn him into a psychopath. So tell me, does little Johnny the psychopath get a gift and go to heaven?

Rick Wolfe

Everyone seems to have this backwards. Faith is a belief without a reason, not a reason for a belief. This is a bad thing. Right?

Rick Wolfe

Protecting people is the highest calling of man. Protecting society is a euphemism for tyranny.

The good news is that our government is not plotting to steal our freedom. The bad news is that the loss of our freedom is a fully automatic process. It runs on pure stupidity and there seems to be no shortage of fuel in sight. You can think of it as oaficial policy.

Enters the least of our species starting this natural process. He does something horrendous and then blames his behavior on ‘anything else but him’ in a desperate attempt to deflect consequences. The government, in a monumental act of stupidity, takes this idiot seriously and attempts to eliminate ‘anything else but him’. Some examples of ‘anything else but hims’ are drugs, pornography, gambling, TV, the Internet, nudity, art, mp3 headphones, rock and roll and other people to mention but a few.

Each of these ‘anything else but hims’ becomes stained by his cretinous behaviors through the esoteric logic of the drug warrior. The bottom line is that our personal liberties are being eliminated as though each of us will do something ‘horrendous’ compelled by ‘anything else but him’ if given the chance. In the thirties, murder was blamed on the rage murderers felt after smoking marijuana.

If we as Americans do not come to see our rights as more substantial than that which is being slung at them, freedom will dissolve like the will that created it. We must rail at any abridgement of rights without clear and compelling necessity. Legislators can no longer be allowed to express moral indignation with law. Representatives attempting to create law based on unsubstantiated causal relationships should not be allowed to finish their terms of office.

But most importantly, never vote for a prohibitionist. Only lemmings could understand this phenomenon. Why do we vote for someone who thinks its fine to arrest citizens who have neither endangered nor harmed anyone? Putting someone behind bars with no justification reveals a contempt for law and liberty that is itself contemptible.

What is the truth about second hand smoke? What is the truth about marijuana? What is the truth about crack babies? The answer in every case is it just doesn’t matter. People need to be protected from the truth just as they are protected from drugs otherwise they could draw the wrong conclusions and make bad decisions. So a lie for a good cause is a good thing. At least this might appear to be government policy. The most alarming aspect of this policy is the public tolerance for lies and their naiveté about the reasons governments lie.

One can easily conclude that this tolerance for prevarication comes from a liked minded citizenry. So it is to you that I speak. Lashing out at our government for telling ‘your lies’ is fruitless. When you vote for someone who supports policies based on lies, you support the lies. You are responsible for the results. Simply blaming the liar denies the truth.

Did you think the right to vote did not come with an awesome responsibility? Right and wrong is not like wallpaper. These choices are not simply a matter of opinion, nor are they horse races or popularity contests. If we as voting Americans don’t rise to the occasion, freedom will go the way of truth.

If you think this article is about a republican or a democrat you are mistaken. Both major political parties are stained by millions of lies. Both support policies known by the American people to be based on lies. Guess again. No luck, here is a hint. If you think prohibition is smart then keep voting for prohibitionist, stupid.