GDQ Special Report: Destroying Freedom for Dummies
Health "Czar" Rober Sillen has crossed the line, blatantly, boldly, unforgivably, in usurping California's right of self-determination. Not that there are more than a toddler's handful of rights left after seven score and ten years of unconstitutional federal abuse. Nevertheless, there comes a time when even the lowliest of slaves is forced to stand up and, at the very least, attempt to wrest away the whip from his master as it comes down on his mangled and blood-soaked flesh.
The arrogance of the Robert Sillen reminds one of that infamous Pharaoh, who---after denying Moses' demand that the Pharaoh let the Hebrews leave Egypt---took away the straw used by those same Hebrews to make bricks for the Pharaoh's various projects. And then, in typically ignorant, arrogant abuse of power so common to those who wield it, Pharaoh not only maintained their quota of bricks, he increased it!
Of course, the Hebrew's god wasn't about to stand for such cruel insolence, especially from his nemesis' minions, the Egytians. So Jehovah set about sending one plague after another on the Egyptians: frogs, lice, wild beasts, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and finally, for the piece de resistance, after having determined that the Pharaoh's hard-headed policies toward the Hebrews wasn't about to soften anytime soon, he declared all-out war on the king. He sent an angel to kill every first-born son in Egypt. (According to legend, God instructed murdering angels to bypass any home with lamb's blood on the door frame, thus Passover, but that's another story for later.)
So, here we have in a strikingly similar re-enactment, the federal government of the United States of America, creating unconstitutional drug laws and then demanding that California enforce those laws. The enforcement of these drug laws create a literal plague of inmates in the California prison system, not to mention a plague of law enforcement organizations complete with their jack-booted stormtroopers smashing down doors in the middle of the night to drag away otherwise law-abiding citizens guilty of the crime of smoking marijuana---a practice which is certainly no more socially destructive than alcohol consumption.
California lawmakers, not exactly a bunch of staunch defenders of liberty themselves, nevertheless attempt to stand on good, sound principles of individual liberty(and being generally liberal pot-smokers themselves), they legalize the harmless herb, at least for medicinal purposes. Such brazen defiance from one its provincial authorities outrages the king and he orders the drug czar to smash the uprising with the aforementioned jack-booted stormtroopers.
A virtual, and fairly invisible, war ensues between the good innocent people of California and the drug czar's army; with the inevitable results of thousands of those innocents being murdered, maimed, beaten, bankrupted, incarcerated and otherwise harrassed by the enforcement of unconstitutional drug laws.
Meanwhile, as the prisons fill up with the new class of "drug criminals," a whole new mega-industry congeals out of the muck of big-government/big-industry collusion: the Prision Industrial Complex (we'll refer to it simply as PIC). Not at all unlike a biological cancer, it is a mindless, ethically-devoid organism seeking only to spread and grow, completely unaware and unconcerned that the ultimate result of its growth is the death of its host---in the case of the PIC the host are the tax-paying citizens, both individual and corporate, of the state of California. Except at the very highest echelons it is no more evil than, say, your average rabid pit-bull; it is simply doing its utmost to thrive; and if that means unmitigated growth, then that's what it will singlemindedly pursue, with its murderously crushing jaws wrapped around the jugular vein of Joe & Jenny Taxpayer.
This singleminded pursuit of growth, combined with the inextricable corruption of publically-funded government (for which there is little or no accountability) has resulted in a reciprocally advantageous relationship between the two. In a nutshell, PIC money and influence ensures the status quo remains the status quo; government ensures the PIC has a fresh stream of "drug criminals" flowing through its gates. It really is that simple. Of course there are historical, cultural and religious aspects of the whole "war on drugs," but the end result, at least with respect to the PIC, really is that simple. It's a cancer; it supports government, government supports it. And, unfortunately, as of this writing threre appears to be no chemo-therapy for this particular strain of cancer---short of an all-out rebellion by the tax-payers of not only California but all the other spineless provincial authorities of our once-great little republic of individual states.
Jefferson
9/20/06
The arrogance of the Robert Sillen reminds one of that infamous Pharaoh, who---after denying Moses' demand that the Pharaoh let the Hebrews leave Egypt---took away the straw used by those same Hebrews to make bricks for the Pharaoh's various projects. And then, in typically ignorant, arrogant abuse of power so common to those who wield it, Pharaoh not only maintained their quota of bricks, he increased it!
Of course, the Hebrew's god wasn't about to stand for such cruel insolence, especially from his nemesis' minions, the Egytians. So Jehovah set about sending one plague after another on the Egyptians: frogs, lice, wild beasts, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and finally, for the piece de resistance, after having determined that the Pharaoh's hard-headed policies toward the Hebrews wasn't about to soften anytime soon, he declared all-out war on the king. He sent an angel to kill every first-born son in Egypt. (According to legend, God instructed murdering angels to bypass any home with lamb's blood on the door frame, thus Passover, but that's another story for later.)
So, here we have in a strikingly similar re-enactment, the federal government of the United States of America, creating unconstitutional drug laws and then demanding that California enforce those laws. The enforcement of these drug laws create a literal plague of inmates in the California prison system, not to mention a plague of law enforcement organizations complete with their jack-booted stormtroopers smashing down doors in the middle of the night to drag away otherwise law-abiding citizens guilty of the crime of smoking marijuana---a practice which is certainly no more socially destructive than alcohol consumption.
California lawmakers, not exactly a bunch of staunch defenders of liberty themselves, nevertheless attempt to stand on good, sound principles of individual liberty(and being generally liberal pot-smokers themselves), they legalize the harmless herb, at least for medicinal purposes. Such brazen defiance from one its provincial authorities outrages the king and he orders the drug czar to smash the uprising with the aforementioned jack-booted stormtroopers.
A virtual, and fairly invisible, war ensues between the good innocent people of California and the drug czar's army; with the inevitable results of thousands of those innocents being murdered, maimed, beaten, bankrupted, incarcerated and otherwise harrassed by the enforcement of unconstitutional drug laws.
Meanwhile, as the prisons fill up with the new class of "drug criminals," a whole new mega-industry congeals out of the muck of big-government/big-industry collusion: the Prision Industrial Complex (we'll refer to it simply as PIC). Not at all unlike a biological cancer, it is a mindless, ethically-devoid organism seeking only to spread and grow, completely unaware and unconcerned that the ultimate result of its growth is the death of its host---in the case of the PIC the host are the tax-paying citizens, both individual and corporate, of the state of California. Except at the very highest echelons it is no more evil than, say, your average rabid pit-bull; it is simply doing its utmost to thrive; and if that means unmitigated growth, then that's what it will singlemindedly pursue, with its murderously crushing jaws wrapped around the jugular vein of Joe & Jenny Taxpayer.
This singleminded pursuit of growth, combined with the inextricable corruption of publically-funded government (for which there is little or no accountability) has resulted in a reciprocally advantageous relationship between the two. In a nutshell, PIC money and influence ensures the status quo remains the status quo; government ensures the PIC has a fresh stream of "drug criminals" flowing through its gates. It really is that simple. Of course there are historical, cultural and religious aspects of the whole "war on drugs," but the end result, at least with respect to the PIC, really is that simple. It's a cancer; it supports government, government supports it. And, unfortunately, as of this writing threre appears to be no chemo-therapy for this particular strain of cancer---short of an all-out rebellion by the tax-payers of not only California but all the other spineless provincial authorities of our once-great little republic of individual states.
Jefferson
9/20/06
posted by Jefferson | 8:20 AM
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