The Last Tyranny Of Man

Laws don’t make problems go away, they define a battlefield. Therefore laws should be approached with as much circumspection as war. Yet our legislators go about blithely proliferating these social land mines with no apparent awareness of the harm being done. Continuously sniffing the political winds, they trot from one problem to another depositing their contribution to society with each new law, proudly attaching their names as they rinse society’s ills away. Can history ever see Rockefeller as anything other than the man who took judgment out of justice with his not so bright idea of ‘minimum sentencing’? Clearly this concept would serve society better as a crime than as a law. Removing judgment from justice in an attempt to improve justice is circular insanity!

If we create laws that are judgmental or openly foolish we create disrespect for the law. Thus one bad law can undermine all law. This is one of the more insidious aspects of prohibitions. It has transformed our police from protectors to controllers. It is converting our land into ‘prisons and gated communities’. Could one expect anything else when law becomes crime.

In every case of law now based on bad science, lies, ignorance and deceit from all evidence including public records, needs minimally to be reconstituted in the whole light of the truth and with open public debate about how society will deal with the myriad and now well known problems of prohibitions. The Constitution gives no one to right to vote on the truth or personal liberty. Laws not fully in compliance with this concept are foolish on the face of it.

Part of reconstituting these laws would involve open and honest withdrawals of all lies, presumptions and deceits on the part of this government for many decades. The fact that we anti-prohibitionist are well aware of the otherwise laughable assertions foisted on we the people does not mean that the average citizen who trust this government could believe this to be so. This might take a lot of time. When someone is ‘taught’ from birth that drugs or any vice hold dominion over the human spirit, their beliefs become almost petrified. Only a sustained government education program can undo the harm done.

The big poisonous lie that created Prohibition, persist in the American psyche 75 years after its’ repeal. Only the law was repealed. The lie was left to fester and erupt into the biggest tragedy of our time.

The laws created by this flawed process are as poisonous as it gets. The misinformation campaigns to create fear and thus acceptance by the population are an historical fact. The laws must be set aside until they can be reconstituted in the bright light of the truth.

In the future any abridgement of personal freedom will come only after personal responsibility has been established scientifically and beyond a reasonable doubt. Drug presumptions like any presumption will have no value in a court of law.

When is the last time you heard of someone bemoaning the laws against murder, rape, assault or theft? There is not a lot of support out their for this kind of activity. Yet protest over laws based on a presumption about personal values and conduct outside of public view seem to upset a lot of people. Those that accept this sort of legislation might fear damage to our society by the forbidden behavior. One can only wonder what hideous developments they envisage that would be worse than prohibition.

It is to this last group that I speak now. Running to the voting poles to vote against your neighbors behavior is a good why to start a civil war and to piss on any chance we have of making freedom work. Did you think that freedom was defined as the ability to agree with you? If you want to change the way your neighbor behaves or thinks by force, go knock on his door and have your personal war, don’t foist this stupid behavior on your representatives. They have no more right than you to be stupid. And neither of you have the right to vote on unalienable rights. Is this not self-evident?

Rick Wolfe