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Drug-Warrior Hypocrisy
Submitted by Robert Fredericks on Sun, 2010-12-05 03:00
"... paternalism is at its worse when it comes to the war on drugs. It is here where caring liberals and compassionate conservatives unite with the religious and the irreligious to not only deprive people of their natural, moral, civil, and constitutional rights to buy, sell, grow, manufacture, or ingest whatever substance they choose for whatever reason they choose, but to criminalize such activity, and sometimes severely."
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Please, someone help me out here. If an individual is a voluntary member of a corporation [state] that doesn't allow its employees [citizens] to use certain kinds of drugs, and only allows them to use other drugs under specific conditions, established by the corporation [state], what should that person [employee/citizen] do if s/he decides that s/he would rather have the freedom to do drugs than be "entitled" to that corporation's [state's] "member-only" benefits and privileges?
I've always been less stressed with multiple-choice quizzes, so to make this easier, here is a list of some of our choices. (Feel free to add to it if you like.)
(a) Write letters to the lawmakers [legislators] of the corporation [state] demanding that they change their rules [laws] on drug use.
(b) Bitch and complain to fellow-employees [fellow-citizens] about the corporate [state] rules [laws] on drug use.
(c) Get fellow-employees [fellow-citizens] to vote at the next corporate [state] election to either replace the current ruling elite or to change their rules [laws] on drug use. [Keep in mind that the corporation [state] can, and very well may, and ofttimes does, decide to simply ignore your votes.]
(d) Get your fellow employees [citizens] to NOT vote at the next corporate [state] election. [Keep in mind that because you choose to be an employee [citizen] of this corporation [state] you will, in the last analysis, be subject to whatever the corporation [state] ultimately decides, regardless of whether you vote or not.]
(e) Leave this corporation [state] and join yourself to another corporation [state] that has looser drug laws, (maybe the Netherlands). [Expatriate]
(f) Withdraw from membership in the corporation [state] and become self-employed [become self-governing]. [Keep in mind that if you choose this answer you will no longer be "entitled" to "member-only" benefits and privileges of that corporation [state]. For example, if you get sick you'll have to "take care of it" yourself, you will no longer be "entitled" to corporate [state] health insurance [Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, Obamacare et al].]
(g) Arm himself/herself to the teeth and attempt to take out every tyrant and wanna-be-tyrant within range. [This, I think most will agree, should always be the last choice, mainly because it is impossible, IMO. And, history, I believe, gives us ample evidence to prove that generally the one(s) who "take them down", simply "take their place". Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]