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

It seems strange to me that a doctrine known as “The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” is applied so rigidly to the enforcement of law but never its creation. Legislation that exceeds the authority of the legislature is no less poisonous than an unauthorized search. Laws that deny self–evident truths and unalienable rights are also poisonous and should be inadmissible in our courts for the same reason. Truth and Liberty are unchanged by votes, opinions or lies. Poison is poison, no matter the cup.

Rick Wolfe

Almost all disagree with most of what I say, yet nobody says what they think or why. I hate to be wrong. Even more, I hate to be the only one wrong. Please speak up, so I can get in step with the popular majority. Then I can vote for someone likely to win.

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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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

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

The steady stream of outrages emanating from our invasive government leads me to wonder what limitations, if any, my fellow citizens would place on our government. Currently government dictates include personal relationships, brain chemistry, medical care, roads, airway, waterways, life and death. Three of these are clear and obvious mandates; the others are even more clearly not something our founding fathers considered within the government purview.

Yet Americans of today think nothing of dictating highly personal and private matters with laws, guns and punishment. These tyrants see no difference between voting for their political representatives and voting for personal freedoms. The superstitious mind is a tortured thing, but believing that a majority vote always indicates the correct action, defies reason. Surely they don’t think that we can vote on everything. There must be some unalienable rights beyond the reach of these idiots and their congressional representatives.

Short answer; there are. Personal liberties of all manner and scope are sacrosanct in this country because of some very clear wording and some very simple ideas. Unalienable means you cannot vote on it. Self evident means that you don’t have to argue or fight for it. Endowed by your creator means that, short of a retraction directly from God, it is safe in this country. ‘Bestow the blessings of’ does not mean take away.

How can the judiciary stand idly by, while human freedom is laid waist by clearly illegal behavior from a government operating in direct opposition to its’ founding documents. Only the Supreme Court can restore the equilibrium envisaged by our founding fathers. Its’ failure to steer political forces clear of human freedom has put this country far off mark. At this point America can no longer be considered a free nation.

A communist government opening up a stock market and encouraging workers to invest in their country seems like such a strange concept. Yet it is no more strange than a free nation dictating what one can do with their bodies with regards to their life and their death and their health and their happiness.

This stark discrepancy boggles my mind. How can we call ourselves free while voting on freedom itself? Have we the people forgotten what freedom is? Does democracy give us the right to vote against freedom? Have Americans confused freedom with a free ride?

Fear of the future does not give us the right to seek another in this country. Freedom is not a choice for us. It is the law of the land. We must see it through. If it fails, so be it. But don’t give it up until then. It’s the highest ideal yet in human social evolution. Have faith in that.

Man kind will flourish in a totally free society. How many spouses of what sexual polarity is clearly a personal matter. What medicine you take is not a public debate in a free society. Presuming harm from behavior like any presumption should have no place in a court of law, even if the legislature insist. Those who would separate man from his behavior reduce him. Those allowing this conduct deserve what they get.

Rick Wolfe

What can drugs really make you do? Anything is the drug warriors’ knee jerk response. A more thoughtful person might ask what drug or how much or a hundred other relevant questions. A skeptic might argue that drugs alone have never been proven to produce human behavior. An aspirin might stop a headache so that one attends a party. Did the aspirin make you go to the party?

We’ve all seen the lab experiment with the rat opting for cocaine to death with a ready alternative of healthy food available all along. The fact that rodents are ubiquitous puts a lie to this myth at least in part. Yet we as a society legislate and conduct ourselves as though every citizen was just as powerless as that poor rat seems to be.

For those who see the human spirit as subservient to the power of drugs the world is a very scary place. This much fear can drive some very flawed thinking and strange behavior. The drug war is riddled with just such thinking and behavior for just this reason. They conduct themselves as though drugs were “Body Snatchers”. That’s one of the scariest movies yet. It was not until later that I saw the similarities to prohibition.

Everyone I know believes it is illicit drug dollars driving the behavior. This may be so with legislators, judges and police but it fails to explain the vast public support for the drug war. The average person supports the drug war but does not benefit from it in any way. Fear is all that can explain this many people being stupid for this long.

The history of prohibition is littered with egregious lying on a biblical scale. Over the years it has produced a state of petrified fear and stupidity that is impervious to facts. This state of mind is not unlike religious zeal. Through almost hallucinogenic logic large portions of this population see drugs animate and somehow effect ingestion on their own. And we the people are powerless to stop this thing that has come alive in our fear-riddled minds.

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