The Last Tyranny Of Man

The imposition of sanctions for behavior that neither harms nor endangers anyone, yet ostensibly harms society is a prohibition. If you want your government molding society by incarcerating those that do not share your views, then free people are no longer our society’s builder, you are.

It stands to reason that if the people forming a society are free then the society thus formed should be free. Individual freedoms collectively create social freedom. The society is free as a result of this fact not because the government chooses to allow any particular part of that society to be free.

Prohibitions tie all men to the same yoke and are the sociological equivalent of inbreeding. The societies they supposedly protect are weakened as with a lack of genetic diversity. This is why we are becoming a nation of ˜prisons and gated communities”. It is no wonder minorities pay a disproportionate price for prohibitions.

The Supreme Court has permitted this violation of our people despite clear and compelling argument against the legality of any prohibition. Unalienable, does not mean you won the vote, but self-evident means our rights should need no defending in this country. That prohibitions are the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree is an historical fact. Laws themselves are constrained in reason just and justly as the enforcement of those laws. If you cannot use poison to enforce a law then it is self-evident that you cannot use it to make the law.

History’s harsh light will not be kind to Supreme Court Justices condoning prohibitions. Congressman, Senators and Presidents proudly and illegally foisting their personal values on their subjects with law and force will also earn histories ire for perpetrating that which they are charged to prevent. The Liberty, the blessings of which were bestowed by the constitution’s preamble, is the same Liberty imbuing each of us with rights that are both self-evident and unalienable.

To put it more simply, our society today as a result of prohibitions is like a working dog unable to hunt because he is too busy scratching a hole in his hide. Don’t forget that the dog must hunt, so scratching a hole in his hide is not optional. The fact that scratching does not help belittles the primary imperative by providing a distraction. Argue as you will about prohibition, the dog still does not hunt.

The litany of problems, that were and still are missed opportunities, is disappointing. Why has this government not eliminated non-recyclable packaging in this country? The right to pollute the earth is not unalienable. Yet many times the effort and cost that would have protected our planet have been expended protecting our frightened society from the so-called evil of drugs. The fact that the effort is by all measure a failure is another one of those distractions. Toxic waste control and disposal along with health care are other major opportunities missed while our government attempts to enforce a contrived future for man and freedom.

There are dozens of such examples of a legitimate mandate being foolishly ignored and supplanted by a foolish and illegal prohibition. A nuclear device would be less devastating to the society supposedly being protected and to the freedom that was to have created that society. It should be clear by now that prohibitions serve neither man nor society and are the sole and last purview of the tyrant.

If there is a God, He or She will save us from prohibition. You might save Her or Him some work by voting for anything but a prohibitionist. This is a good vs. evil up down vote as clear as it can be. Not voting is a vote for prohibitions. Assuming that you are powerless to make a change will only prolong the last tyranny of man. Democracy does not insure freedom, but it does prevent it from getting more than one vote away.

Rick Wolfe