Comments on Pro Libertate: The Pointlessness of Prohibition (Pt. I)

The most rediculous thing in all of this is the fa...

2006-12-18T19:53:00.000-07:00

The most rediculous thing in all of this is the fact in the current global drug prohibition aka the "war on drugs" the US is at the forefront of it all, do they ever learn we have to wonder.

I note a comment from the Law Enforcement Againt Prohibition website (www.leap.cc):

Al Capone
Pablo Escabar

Same Problem
Same Solution
End Prohibition

Enough said I think.

Man reproduces and uses free will to create govern...

2006-12-06T09:09:00.000-07:00

Man reproduces and uses free will to create government for protection of his free will choices. He soon forgets that the government he created is an extension of the family and has no legal authority to do anything that man cannot do, all based on the Law of Man's Maker.The trick is essentially Big Notes on Refrigerators or fervent Prayer Pleas , or both, to work to get the free-will Genie back in the bottle and strengthening Families, townships, cites, and states to enforce this moral concept. Read Will Grigg and pass him on. It will help in this effort. Prohibit Moral Relativism and Situation Ethics !

It's interesting when one harkens back to the days...

2006-12-05T22:56:00.000-07:00

It's interesting when one harkens back to the days of the Prohibition to be sure, focusing on one area of earlier Leviathan's prowess. But meanwhile, the same thing is orchestrated by today's much more expanded Leviathan in other arenas.

For example, the food police of Leviathan's NYC subsidiary has just banned trans-fat foods. The commoners probably have no qualm with that. They probably think that it must be a good ban because it's for my health. Same with smoking. But not alcohol? Not Ritulin?

IOW, whatever big daddy gov and mass media/entertainment says is "good" or "OK" should be fine and dandy, but whatever they say is "bad" must be bad. That's why you see so many youngsters today drinking like fish, but are cigarette-free. And with narcotics, sigh, it's the same. There are hordes of junkies out there, hooked on all kinds of drugs, just not illegal drugs. Only that it's drugs that big daddy gov says are "OK" and "safe," except with a minor caveat, of course: They require a prescription.

As Dennis Prager mentioned in a column sometime back, smokers are viewed one step up from child-molesters these days. The aggregate commoner mind today is reprobate and depraved and moral relativity reigns.

It's ALL a farce, Will. The entire mantras preached (by the state and mass-entertainment industry complex) on drugs, alcohol, abortion, homosexuality, smoking, family, etc., etc. are full of half-truths and outright lies, but all is deceptive.

What's really significant in my mind about yesterday's Prohibition and today's "Prohibitions" is that the statist commoner today, just as the statist commoner yesterday, doesn't really reject "Prohibition" by any measure, but rather is only interested in endorsing certain "Prohibitions" that mesh with the mass media and mass entertainment celeb clarion calls. For the slow, that roughly translates to:

Commoners today = favor prohibitions on fatty foods, guns, nativity scenes, public display of Ten Commandments, Bibles in public places, non-state-sanctioned (i.e. illegal and "hard") drugs, tobacco products, free speech, and so on. Much apathy.

Do NOT favor prohibitions on vice of any kind and homosexuality, some drugs (cannabis), alcohol, obscenity, open profanity, etc., etc. Much apathy.

Commoners yesterday = favored prohibitions on homosexuality, vice of any kind, obscenity, open profanity, some for/against on alcohol. Overall, little apathy.

Did NOT favor prohibitions on free speech, guns, fatty foods, tobacco products, nativity scenes, public display of Ten Commandments, Bibles in public places, etc., etc. Little apathy.

Anyway, it's quite apparent that there's obviously been a sea change in the commoner's mind in terms of what should or should not be prohibited, but NOT in the concept of Prohibition itself. There are a number of "Prohibitions" that are enacted today regularly without as much as a whimper from the commoners. Granted, they're not national "Prohibitions" yet, but nevertheless continue to happen and eventually expand. It would be laughable, except that I wasn't affected by the rightfully detested Prohibition era, but certainly will be affected by these wrongfully praised modern-era prohibitions.

Unfair! Say what you will about the wisdom of proh...

2006-12-05T16:30:00.000-07:00

Unfair! Say what you will about the wisdom of prohibition (or lack thereof, in this case), but it's unfair to compare the prohibitionist politicians with today's warriors in the "War on Drugs."

As columnist Joe Sobran has noted, those misguided idealists who voted for prohibition at least recognized the need to amend the U.S. Constitution to fight the war on booze. Politicians today don't even bother to pay lip service to the Constitution on this issue.

Thus, it's hardly a wonder that the "War on Drugs" has become a war on rights.

In my view, the War on Drugs is slightly less practical than a war against the periodic table of the elements.