The very concept of Liberty is freedom of
choice.
Freedom is not a privilege granted magnanimously
by the rulers of our nation, although it has
become apparent that they wish that were so.
Freedom is a right, hard fought and won for the
citizens of this country by the blood of the
founders and forefathers of this then-fledgling
republic, America's first citizens.
Thomas Jefferson held the adage that, "The price
of Freedom is eternal vigilance." Yet, vigilance
all too often ends in war. Such is the condition
of the rights and liberties of 1990's Americans.
The creation of the Bill of Rights was intended
to guarantee American citizens each and every right
provided in it's original
form. Those rights and
liberties were not granted to certain individuals,
or specific persons, but to every citizen of this
nation as a whole.
Concurrently, those rights and liberties were
intended literally, in order to securely and
unquestionably provide each American citizen
specific powers and authority concerning their own
lives, personal affairs, privacy, security, and
personal choices.
This selfsame document contains safeguards and
provisions specifically designed to protect against
governmental interference in the private lives and
personal affairs of our citizenry. However, citing
"special needs," our American government from the
Federal level down has virtually disregarded,
blatantly ignored, or outright defied or denied
these most essential elements of our National
Constitution, rewriting "exceptions" into a
definitive instrument to change its meaning, in
order to circumvent some or all of its original
intent, thus allowing governmental oppression of
citizen's rights.
(Just ONE of the eventualities it was intended to prevent)
These charges are most predominantly evident in
the American Federal Government's "War on Drugs."
This illegal, immoral, ill-conceived, and downright
criminal declaration of war against the people of
our sovereign nation must cease, it must be brought
to an end. There is no precedent for it, it's very
existence stands against every word uttered in the
Declaration of Independence, it demeans, belittles,
and humiliates Americans on both sides of it, it
induces violence, creating battlefields in our
neighborhoods and communities, and has substantiated
no gain, only losses in the form of billions of
taxpayer dollars, the erosion of the rights of our
people, and the corruption of, and contempt for, the
American Criminal Justice System.
Ergo: not drugs, not their use nor their abuse are
responsible for the current overcrowding of prisons,
constitutional and civil rights violations, or the
deterioration of respect for law and order in 1990's
American society. The Prohibition of Substances, the
Government's denial of the right to choose for one's
self; the Federal Government's adamant refusal to
allow our citizens to make decisions affecting and
directly concerning their most intimate possession,
the body incarnate, is at the very root of the deepest
problems our country is facing.
The Declaration of Independence clearly states...
"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"
There is NO footnote in that line describing exceptions
or conditional exclusions such as the personal use of
a recreational intoxicant. There is NO disclaimer
disallowing those who drink alcohol or smoke tobacco or
hemp, NO renunciation of those who in any way, shape, or
form, choose to recreationally alter their own
consciousness. All of these would fall under Pursuit of
Happiness.
The government is not a citizen's parent, nor their
conscience, and no part of our National Constitution,
nor the Bill of Rights, nor any other Charter our nation
was founded upon provide for such flagrant discontinuity
of the right of personal choice, where that choice is NOT
injurious to any other citizen. It is the height of
arrogance for any pompous government official, or group
of officials, to presume to know what is "good" for anyone,
other than themselves. No vote has ever been taken to
disallow the use of anything now considered a "controlled
substance."
As a citizen of these United States of America, in
accordance with the Declaration of Independence, I am Free.
Not free to do as I am TOLD, but Free to live life as I will,
free to decide for myself what is best for me, free to choose,
whether right or wrong, those things that affect MY mind,
MY
body, MY most personal self.
I denounce the American Federal government as a Lie, an
Impostor, and an Elitist Regime of hypocritical, would-be
dictators, with delusions of Godhood.
For America's sake, people!
Wake UP!