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

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

We all know that control of drugs is unnecessary. Drugs are inanimate. We are obviously attempting to control human behavior without the right to do so. We all know that drugs are harmless because they are inanimate. We call them dangerous because we have been ‘taught’ that drugs can control people. To prove this horrible ‘truth’, unacceptable behavior by users of illicit drugs is repeatedly reported with the heavy implication that the behavior is caused by the drugs. Uneventful and peaceful use of illicit drugs never occurs we must conclude, because the tell-tail objectionable behavior did not occur. It is an offense to the intellect to report only behavior that supports a policy and ignore the rest. The Truth is the only thing that is consistent with all fact. If most of the data does not support the premise the premise is flawed. This fact is undeniable.

Protecting people from themselves denies free will, self-control and unalienable rights. Argument to the contrary is thinly veiled sophistry. Drug prohibitions claim to regulate dangerous substances. Control of we the people is just an unfortunate by-product of this perfectly legitimate government function. This trivial justification is no more than an excuse for social engineering. It is based on bad science, lies and ignorance. The supporters of this policy disrespect themselves, others and the species.

Foisting personal values on others denies their rights and is therefore illegal in the United States. Public behavior can and should be restrained to protect the equal rights of others and the preferences of the majority. Private conduct that does not infringe on the equal rights of others is clearly beyond any reasoned concept of personal liberty. Prohibiting personal conduct by popular vote in order to “create” a popular society is tyranny, not liberty.

What gives anyone the evil right to practice prohibition in a country that was created with the unequivocal words?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

These are the words for which American Revolutionary patriots fought and died. The Constitution did not exist as they bled. The “Blessings Of Liberty” in the Constitution refers to the same Liberty defined in The Declaration Of Independence.

(pull)Our Declaration Of Independence stands unchanged as the right and reason for this nations existence.(/pull) It defines the unalienable liberty of all men irrevocably and for as long as The United States of America exists. The Constitution simply defines the structure and operation of the government. The Bill of Rights is an afterthought needlessly limiting government power it did not possess. All personal choices, even just to pursue happiness, are beyond Constitutional and therefore government purview. Voting on personal behavior denies liberty to everyone, even the foolish and temporary majority.

The entire pursuit of the “Drug War” is a lawless assault on personal liberty. This violation of the fundamental values that define our nation must come to an end. Explanation of this “Truth” should not be necessary because it is “self-evident”. Popular opinion does not matter because our Liberty is “unalienable”. So says our Creator according to our Founding Fathers.

Rick Wolfe

* Personal means no other person’s rights are involved. Those who would control personal liberty always point to egregious violations of the liberty of others. Pretending not to see the distinction does not make it go away.

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

The medical marijuana or marijuana debates simply specify a level of rationality. Just how smart should we be as a society is closer to the real issue. Conversely, just how stupid will the law allow. If you are missing my point then join the vast majority of Americans engaged in these debates. The presumption that you or your government has the right to tell anyone, anywhere that they cannot ingest, inject, inhale or otherwise use any substance for any reason they see fit, is absurd. To justify such prohibitions citing public safety is valid for antibiotics or virulent or explosive substances, but what is the reasoning behind a marijuana prohibition? Equateing things that are not equal is foolish. Marajuana is not an automatic weapon.

Even after the repeal of Prohibition a wound festers in the American psyche. The belief that substances hold reign over the human mind and spirit persist to this day. The battle for Prohibition was permeated with this insidious concept. Our government did not retract the concept behind Prohibition. Only the law was retracted. Having salvaged this falsehood from what was supposed to have been a defunct policy, legislators proceeded to perpetrate many more prohibitions on this society. To foist this Stepford society on a free people, whose personal liberty is self-evidently unalienable, is a crime not a law.

Yet we tolerate this most outrageous presumption like a cow on the way to dinner. To argue that our government needs to intrude so egregiously in personal matters belittles the real issue. Personal liberty is not up for a vote in this country. Is it not self-evident? Your government is not supposed to be controlling behavior; they are supposed to be protecting you and your rights. The contrived evolution of our society is not only beyond government purview; it is a direct assault on personal liberty. Exporting our prohibitions is a worldwide attack on personal liberty.

Allowing sick people access to a drug will some day be known for the arrogant condescension that it is. In that day police will restrain those who would block anyone’s access to drugs, not because people, police or drugs are inherently good, but because We The People are inherently free.

Rick Wolfe

Hate and fear come together to form the most noxious social concoctions, prohibitions. Those who believe that Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde are real share an affliction with the fictional character. In their case a lie serves the same purpose and produces the same effect. Such a simple idea really, a good man takes a drug and becomes a bad man. While good fiction it is bad fact. There is no support in science that would suggest such a thing. A drug can easily kill you, but to assume a drug can make a good boy steal money from his mother’s purse, is something only a loving but naive mother could believe.

So it was in the beginning when men broke under the strain of the frontier life, turning to ‘demon rum’ to dull their pain. The reversal of cause and effect was so easy. It served everyone’s interest. Prohibitionist played on this denial, enlisting support from both sides of the issue with one lie. It’s not little Johnny’s problem; it’s the drug, sex, pornography or what ever. Mom and Dad get to keep admiring and loving their son and their son escapes responsibility and the annoying need to control his appetites at the same time. Separating man from his behavior only delays the reckoning that must follow.

Evils most defining quality is harm. Without harm, evil is just a strange perspective. So it would be with the drug-war, morality war, ET all. But his mythical perspective on the species has been breathed life with lies. It is now laying waist to our democracy, our society, and freedom itself.

These pseudo supporters while not themselves evil, operate at evils behest. They are deeply ensconced in what I call type three stupidity. Briefly that is a special type of stupidity that is the mixture of time, concurrence and the absolute certainty of something that is not so. Type two stupidity is not quit as bad and type one is that with which we arrived. The flat-earthers formerly held the title for type three or protracted stupidity.

If these drug warriors can set aside their certainty long enough to realize that there is no support in science or reason for their dim view of our species. Paradoxically, those suffering from ‘drug-addiction’, drug abuse or whatever, are just more victims of the lie. Believing in a lie, gives it life that it does not deserve. You are powerless only when you believe you are.

Reductio ad absurdum is a logical process and debating technique whereby equating a proposition logically with that which is clearly absurd disproves that proposition. So the rational behind the drug war could easily be shown to be analogous to laws against tall buildings and bridges. Such laws would be absurd, but could be created by the same process generating prohibitions. That someone would use an object or substance to do themselves harm is not surprising if that someone is filled with self-loathing. Blaming this state of mind on the building or bridge from which the poor soul chose to end his life, belittles the species while, of course, being absurd.

Prohibition is the last and sole purview of the tyrant in a free world. Stop the last tyranny of man. Vote against prohibitions and their supporters. Let’s loose the fear of the future, of man and his freedom. A contrived future based on bad science, social skills and fear is no future for man or his freedom.

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

Our Go Fast Society

Did you ever wonder why our government seems to be more concerned with marijuana than with dangerous drugs? You would think it would be just the opposite if the government truly had our best interest at heart. Maybe there is some danger to marijuana that is unspoken, that would explain the strange emphasis.

To begin to answer this question, a series of lies by our government must be undone in order to allow for lucid thought. Firstly, marijuana is not some insidious plot on the part of black American jazz musicians. Secondly, marijuana does not produce rage or anything remotely resembling rage. Not surprising that a lie would fall exactly opposite of the truth. It happens all the time in the Drug War. Last year marijuana was pronounced to be the most addictive of all drugs. This is of course 180 out from the truth. Thirdly and most importantly, (pull)no one is powerless over any drug; therefore drugs cannot effect human behavior.(/pull) Their ability to affect human behavior is different. In other words drugs can kill you, but they cannot make you steal money from your mother’s purse. Now, have your government chant these truths to you for 50 years and you will be ready to answer the question at hand.
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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.

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

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

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

Elitist thinking plays a major roll in the perpetuation of the failed drug war. The temporary escape of drugs from a life filled with difficulty, poverty, hate and self-loathing is truly intoxicating. For the desperately poor the money from drug sales is an equally intoxicating temptation.

For lives devoid of these miseries the problem is distant and hard to understand. The old expression “driven to drink” is just a colloquialism to most elitists. They are not tempted to risk all that they have with illegal drugs. To them it is nothing more than weakness. They see a difference between taking their prescribed Valium to cope with the stress in their lives and a homeless man smoking a joint under a bridge for the same reason.

Drug abuse is not choosing between lawfulness and criminality, it is choosing a fleeting alternative to despair over the relative slight possibility of punishment in a free society. No matter how draconian these punishments the abuse of drugs continues, as does human misery. Difficult lives become impossible, not because of drugs but because of the drug war.
The elitists see only laws, crime, and punishment. They do not see their position in life as superior they see themselves as superior. They then use their superior position with the government to visit even more misery on the miserable. If these elitists are truly superior then why can they not see how wrong they are?

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