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Not Just Another Anti Drug War Site

Friday, March 21st, 2008

NEW IDEAS New Views New Solutions

Just 1 Minute for Change

· 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

Poison In Any Cup Is Equally Wrong

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

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

Silent but vast majority

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

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.

US Drug Policy Paradox

Friday, February 9th, 2007

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